Nissan Sees A World Of Traffic Observers Controlling Driverless Vehicle Routes

No matter what the Silicon Valley visionaries say, it's going to be a long time until self-driving cars are capable enough to handle everything the world throws at them. Until that day comes, human beings will retain responsibility for watching over the vehicles to make sure the car still functions when the autonomous functionality throws up its virtual hands in confusion. But while many carmakers are planning on placing that job at the feet of the person behind the driver's seat, Nissan has a different idea: Hand the problem off to observers elsewhere, who can tell the car what to do.

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MorePower - 5/10/2017 5:27:47 PM

+2 Boost

Google & Waze will offer "car controllers" before there is a office park filled with human controllers.

atc98092 - 5/11/2017 7:20:14 AM

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As an Air Traffic Controller, I can't envision using the same methodology for surface vehicles as we use in the air. I have altitude available for separation, which won't work on the surface. Also, I have miles between aircraft due to insufficient accuracy about the precise aircraft position at any particular second. Separation of surface vehicles has to be measured in feet, or you will never maintain existing traffic flows, let alone allowing additional traffic. I acknowledge they are only talking about humans monitoring the flow of the traffic, but there are so many variables to contend with on the surface (pedestrians, accidents, construction, etc.), it doesn't really compare to ATC.