self driving sooner than we think!

maillemaker wrote:
You will know the turning point has been reached when they start altering road construction and signage to accommodate autonomous vehicles. When they start embedding things in the roadway, or special stripes on the roadway, or special visual or RF beacons on the roadside, that serve no purpose but to help AI vehicles navigate the roads, then you will know that the turning point has come.

Today, everything you see on and around roadways is to enable human drivers. Soon, there will be things there to enable AI drivers.

So self driving cars came out 5yrs ago?

I worked on a project 5yr ago that did just this in a midsize city.

Google "Connected Vehilces V2I"

We installed systems that duplicate traffic signals and signs electronically. The signal systems are now moving into wide scale implementation to accommodate cars that have the systems...

Pavement markings can already be detected by onboard cameras, so not a lot of need for those.