Wednesday, October 27, 2010

How we can use Robocar technology today

Creating shared lanes from our highways, shared by BRT and qualified lane guided cars. But these lanes are very special corridors, and for a high price, you can just drive your car onto this corridor and read the news or drink coffee.  The traffic system guides your car along, shared by BRT and other qualified transports.   Near your destination, the car beeps you and you manually drive onto city streets.  BRT runs this way today, make the mode standard and create a lane designation.  If an unqualified car cross the lane divider, it is detected by traffic central and your car alerts you, right away, to take the wheel.   Normally the lane is used for synchronizing commuter car traffic.  These types of lanes have that virtuous cycle, entirely created out of sand and puzzle solving skills.  But they generate big gains in transportation efficiency and take advantage of that unique American advantage, the network of asphalt..

Robocar skeptics omit a certain force, the addition of low cost digital  infrastructure along the highway multiplies the limited capability of today's robocars. Associated technology, roadside am satellite wireless, roadside cameras, central traffic maps, reserved spacing, and most of all, the idea that traffic central is responsible for unqualified cars entering the system.

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