Which generation will be the biggest owners of Slates?

[Doctors Do Little]

This all sounds wonderful in theory, cars talking to other cars so they all can make better predictions about how to react to the situation. That is a ton of telemetry data though, and there's not a company on earth that I would trust not to find "alternative and lucrative" uses for that information. Adtech, warrantless tracking, and constant surveillance is bad enough already.

Besides, we already have the tech for cars in front to control the behavior of cars in back. It's called a train.

Yup...this is a rich topic. I keep trying to get the train to stop in front of my house....stupid tracks won't be built on this hill though. ;-)

 

[AZFox]

Yup...this is a rich topic.

Rich enough to deserve its own thread.

 

[E90400K]

It would be mostly like what tesla and others are working on, but not skip the lidar sensors like tesla, more processing, the comms would be more of a peer to peer system and not having cell tower intermediaries, no comms would mean they fall back to a default system, tesla's setup but better. comms, working would allow shorter following distance and higher speeds, because cars wouldn't have to depend on just their own sensors.
This would all be a while off though, probably 20 years just to cycle through all the manual cars even if the tech was all built and tested and ready for release today.
So probably 30 or more years out unless at some point the government was to go all in and pour lots of money into it, which is unlikely.

It's a way more complex problem than that.

 

[E90400K]

This all sounds wonderful in theory, cars talking to other cars so they all can make better predictions about how to react to the situation. That is a ton of telemetry data though, and there's not a company on earth that I would trust not to find "alternative and lucrative" uses for that information. Adtech, warrantless tracking, and constant surveillance is bad enough already.

Besides, we already have the tech for cars in front to control the behavior of cars in back. It's called a train.

Well, they will know where to go collect the bodies.

 

[Doctors Do Little]

Well, they will know where to go collect the bodies.

That's a one off of a Ron White punch line, "...'How far do you think this plane will go?' White: 'All the way to the scene of the crash!'".