Re Berkeley duo's plan to solve traffic jams: hyper-fast lanes for self-driving cars

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () gmail com>
> Date: June 3, 2017 at 5:01:24 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Berkeley duo's plan to solve traffic jams: hyper-fast lanes for self-driving cars
>
> > On 6/3/2017 7:59 AM, Dave Farber wrote:
> > Berkeley duo's plan to solve traffic jams: hyper-fast lanes for self-driving cars
> > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/03/self-driving-cars-high-speed-lane-berkeley-california?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
>
>
>     "Barrs and Chen said vehicles would travel at speeds up to 120mph, and that the centralized computer control – 
> which would be in constant communication with each vehicle using emerging 5G technology – would allow for a more 
> tightly-packed traffic pattern."
>
>
> Hmmm.  Single, centralized computer with fulltime, real-time reliance on perfect, metropolitan area wireless 
> communication between that computer and every vehicle under its control?
>
> This proposal might need a bit of deeper thinking about the design of the command and control architecture.
>
> Something more distributed, and with more modest assumptions about lane occupancy percentages will likely produce a 
> far more robust (and safer) service with surprisingly similar level of utility.
>
> If only there were a body of research about the pragmatics of optimizing network access and control methods that one 
> might draw from...
>
> d/
>
>
> -- 
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net
>
> -- 
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net



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