“Reversible lanes are easy. You’ve already got the GPS so you know where you are, and the map so you know where the reversibles are, and a clock that’s updatable from GPS and therefore accurate. Got cameras too so reading the lights isn’t too tough.”
Do you remember a story from a few months ago, where some vest bomber killed themselves because they screwed up daylight saving’s time? These things aren’t as easy as you make them out to be. There is a vast difference between technically possible, and reasonably fail safe. You’ve just proposed a system that involves maps, clocks, cameras, and GPS, all working together perfectly...and declared it ‘easy’? Really?
I’m going to classify you as an ‘IT’ guy, and not a ‘car’ guy.
“It’s too little too late. The car companies are putting self driving in one portion of the drive at a time.”
I have to re-iterate how vastly different a self parking feature is, compared to what Google is trying to do. The auto makers are not, and have not introduced ‘self driving’ features into their cars.
That was human error. DST is easy to handle programmatically, the computer you’re sitting at does it twice a year, so does your phone probably. Depending on what kind of features are in your car it very well might ALREADY be successfully dealing with DST. I’ve “proposed” a system that used stuff we’re putting in cars RIGHT NOW. The only big addition is adding light reading to the cameras, which will be absolutely necessary for any form of self driving anyway.
And I’ll reiterate we’ve already got a lot more in cars RIGHT NOW. Lane control is already there, speed control been there for decades and getting better every generation. Collision avoidance already there. These are ALL self driving features that have been introduced. Look at the guy upthread talking about is 2014 jeep that can handle itself on the freeway, yes indeed they have been introducing these features.