As I already said, stories about cars being hacked is another reason for self driving cars to NOT (you whine about the caps, but you don’t pay attention to anything else) communicate with other cars. If you’re in the tech industry as you claim you know the more your stuff communicates with the more susceptible it is to hacking.
It wouldn’t be difficult at all, but it would be painfully stupid to hook the main computer to a bluetooth or cellular system. Especially for self driving cars.
So now that you’ve fully shown exactly why none of the dozen companies working on this technology want them to communicate with other cars you see exactly why I point out that your stage 2 will never happen.
In this case our right to independent mobility is protected by good design. Everything necessary to make your stages 2 through 4 happen are terrible awful designs that any program manager or QA engineer worth a damn would reject in the earliest stages of the product.
Again, you fail to see that companies developing and hoping to exploit this technology aren’t the ones that will control those technologies, anymore than cell phone service providers or internet sites intended to be controlled, monitored, and restrained by the government. Yes, the government controls and licenses frequencies, so we allegedly gave them that power but the government owns our roadways and licenses us to drive vehicles on them so they have the power and we don’t.
We have already numerous restraints put on our driving. Speed limits, with plenty of law enforcement assets to make sure we behave, “Aggressive driving” cameras on our freeways, speed cameras to automatically ticket us, etc., etc. The chance for the same bureaucrats to firmly control our movements will be irresistible.
No, using the caps button to simulate shouting is childish.