[RomanSoldier19]

sure maybe add sonar and depth charge just to be sure:

[Steely Tom]

Researchers at MIT suggest ground-penetrating radar as the fix.

That's a great idea. Will only add about twenty-eight thousand dollars to the price of a car.

[TalBlack]

They’re gonna come up with some gizmo that is easily implanted into roads that solves this aND the definition of “hick town” will be anywhere that you have to actually drive your car yourself.

[nascarnation]

First they lost the ability to drive stick shift.
Soon they lose the ability to steer, LOL.

[Erik Latranyi]

Autonomous cars will not drive in conditions that many humans would risk driving in and result in accidents.

[kaehurowing]

When is someone just going to come out and say this is a really bad idea.

[PIF]

I have simple solution that most autonomous cars could use to beat the winter snows - its called, variously, a parking space and sometimes a garage.

[backwoods-engineer]

I’ve a better solution: HUMAN DRIVERS.

[Steven Scharf]

The City Council Sustainability and Transportation Committee here in Portland Maine is having a presentation on a proposal for an Preparing for an autonomous shuttle pilot tonight at 6 pm. The shuttle would travel about 2 miles from a remote parking lot to our island ferry terminal making no stops along a busy tourist corridor in between. The power point blow is very disjointed as it talks about our other smart city initiatives interlaced with this project. But the raisin deter-re is the one of the last slides. Our lessons learned ● It doesn’t pay to be first. ● Overcommunication is better than undercommunication. ● Be the right level of ambitious. ● Coordination is key https://portlandme.civicclerk.com/Web/GenFile.aspx?ad=4747 Unfortunately I have a conflict with another meeting to hear and comment on our upcoming school budget which will cost us far more if the public does not keep the thump on our side of the scale.

[zaxtres]

Actually the answer has been in front of people all along but has really never been brought up. The answer to the automated car is to place sensors in the road in which the AI computer reads. However, the technology for smart roads is much further down the road and is too expensive to accomplish at this time. These sensors could relay information to and from the car. We already have the sensor technology available to us. We do not have the ability to maintain the current roads that we have now. Adding sensor technology in or on the road would mean a drastic overhaul of the current infrastructure. AI in cars would go so much further if every car and every road had this. It was passed up because of the cost. Now we measure the cost of AI in cars in the cost of lives. Sensors in the road could relay things like speed limits, light signals, distance to the next car, and staying in the lane to switching lanes from the one the car is in. However, one other thing that is of an issue that must be contended with is GPS issues from satellites needs to be much further in technology and software. Right now GPS has a much further road to travel to be more accurate.

BTW cars already have sonar, sort of, in the form of collision detection.

[Hot Tabasco]

They’d better also add pot hole detection too....

[philman_36]

Magnets embedded in the road surface and magnetic sensors on the vehicles would be a more simple solution.