Thoughts on Smarter Transportation
The case for more intelligent infrastructure.
It's no overstatement to say that we've made more progress with autonomous cars over the past five years than we have in the prior 50. John Markoff of The New York Times writes:
βCars are beginning to drive on their own in certain situations, and in the coming years, they will do increasingly more under computer control. They will follow curving roads, change lanes, pass through intersections, and stop and start.β
Fascinating stuff to be sure, but will this actually happen? Put differently, can smart vehicles really reach their full potential on "dumb" roads?
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