On 10/8/2017 2:46 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:
For your reference, records indicate that
Jeff Liebermann wrote:

It's highly likely that we're going to have driverless cars inflicted
upon the American public either the choice of government edict. My
guess(tm) is that such driverless cars will need to communicate with
each other and with some manner of central traffic authority via some
kind of mesh network. It's this network that controls which roadway
the vehicles will travel, distributes the traffic to prevent
bottlenecks, and hopefully helps prevent accidents. If bicycles are
going to continue riding on the same roads, they will need to check
into the same mesh network that will be used by cars, buses, trucks,
and such in order to be deemed safe.

That’s quite a leap. The streets are and will continue to be full of
vehicles that *aren’t* going to be part of that sort of network for a
long, long time. Add to that all sorts of other traffic like
pedestrians and pets and things that fall from trucks, downed trees
and rocks and snow drifts, and on and on. If autonomous vehicles
can’t be safe without active communication, they are a danger to
everyone and don’t belong on the road. There’s nothing special about
bikes from that viewpoint.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1uYrMlhdWE

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