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it's never gonna happen. teslas and waymos can't even implement this, as if 100 different companies are going to agree to comply. not to mention the privacy nightmare! pure nerd fantasy that ignores reality.

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There's no communication protocol standard yet, so there's nothing to implement. Once a standard is developed, every car company will be onboard.

that is wrong, there are communication protocol standards already. a quick google search could tell you that. https://medium.com/@wiprodigital/talking-cars-a-survey-of-pr... perhaps you haven't seen the xkcd about standards? i can google it for you if you need. my point was, teslas could communicate with other teslas (and waymos with other waymos) by using any proprietary technology or method they choose. and yet they don’t. they honk at each other at 4am instead.

The link is broken, but I can see that article is from 6 years ago. It needs to be a protocol that is developed with the purpose driving in sync with each other – perhaps it needs some sort of oracle or centralized entity that maintains the state.

Teslas communicating with each other isn't using an open standard that can be used by other car companies, nor is Waymo's.

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