Self-Driving Cars Won’t Work Until We Change Our Roads – And Attitudes

This article is by Andrew Ng and Yuanqing Lin.

It started out as an interesting read but then a page filling message popped up complaining about my ad blocker. (I closed the tab then.)

With regard to situations where the car's cameras have difficulty distinguishing the color of the traffic signals when the sun is directly behind overwhelming the traffic light, why not add a different kind of signal intended for cars only rather than equip every car with "better cameras". Same for "wide turns", flammable liquids, etc. Develop a parallel protocol for non human drivers alongside the already existing protocols for humans. Simple but robust transmitters and receivers with fallback to interpreting human protocol in the event of failure.

So... people who want to sell autonomous driving argue that human behavior and the organization of public space should adapt to accommodate the unsolved problems of autonomous driving.

The emotional appeal regarding 3000 deaths every day is a bit cheap considering the fact that many of those deaths are cause exactly by bad attitudes and bad road infrastructure.