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Originally Posted by antzcrashing
I get you. I can see a natural implementation of smart driving as one in which highway driving is autonomous and entering and exiting highways is human controlled. In that way it would be very similar to airplane methods. Even the highway self driving would be extremely risky with other normal drivers (unless they control he situation with dedicated lanes etc). But lets take that for a second, if one dedicated lane, how do you handle a flat tire or a breakdown? Add a breakdown lane to it? Its hard enough to build the infrastructure and get approvals for extra lanes. Maybe thats why Elon is digging tunnels...
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Think of what the cost would be to make those kinds of changes to the existing infrastructure. It would take 50 years and hundreds of trillions of dollars. No one has that kind of money or that amount of time for investment payback. And what you speak of is a transitional situation just to integrate machine driving with human driving. It's not financially possible, which is why the proposed engineering solution is car-to-car communication for collision avoidance. That takes multiple layers of redundancy and common platform mechanical and software systems, which leads to uncompetitive development of the vehicles.
There's no capitalistic model for it.