The fundamental problem which is impossible to solve is game theory.
Suppose the collision avoidance is perfect. Now put it on the roads of NYC, or New Delhi.
There are a lot of people who will just walk in front of a car going 40mph, if they know for sure it will brake hard and stop.
The problem isn't technology, it's humanity.
The solution is to change the rules of the road, have protected lanes for self-driving buses and taxis and cars, and enforcement.
Let vehicles that can take full advantage of communicating with each other and the road go fast and use the infrastructure to maximum theoretical capacity, without having to worry about dumb human drivers.
> if they know for sure it will brake hard and stop.
I think the solution here is to issue tickets to those people. You could probably ticket them already under some statute like "endangering road users" or something.
With self driving cars having always on cameras, you only need to ticket each idiot once or twice, and they'll stop doing it.
We already punish people who run around on the runway of airports - seems no different.
> The solution is to change the rules of the road, have protected lanes for self-driving buses and taxis and cars, and enforcement.
We reached this conclusion about 150 years ago and came up with rails. In addition, you get cheap electricity so reliably that modern trains don't even bother having batteries.
Yes, rail lines as they are deployed now might not be the ideal future proof solution, but something similar which allows 'cars' to go off track for the last mile but otherwise not incur wear and tear on your own tires and engine/transmission for the long haul might be a practical idea.
Suppose the collision avoidance is perfect. Now put it on the roads of NYC, or New Delhi.
There are a lot of people who will just walk in front of a car going 40mph, if they know for sure it will brake hard and stop.
The problem isn't technology, it's humanity.
The solution is to change the rules of the road, have protected lanes for self-driving buses and taxis and cars, and enforcement.
Let vehicles that can take full advantage of communicating with each other and the road go fast and use the infrastructure to maximum theoretical capacity, without having to worry about dumb human drivers.