[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[David Lochrin]

On 2016-07-21 23:54 Stephen Loosley wrote:

> Seems to me that future vehicle “black boxes” will be networked clouds. 
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> Properly done, each vehicle will have it’s own IP address, and be connected with and communicate with surrounding vehicles. Each vehicle has it’s own pre-determined flight-path, controlled, and, occasionally varied as might be appropriate, by the cloud-based master city/state/national neural networks.
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> Really, it seems to me that the only way to do this automated transport thing safely is to have all components able to communicate their intentions, and be choreographed by a cloud based neural network, resourced via your rego fees.

Or we could use trams & trains.  (I believe a light-rail system is now being considered for The Nation's Capital.)

David L.