Standoff with a Jaywalker
R. Craig Coppola
Experienced Commercial Real Estate Broker & Advisor, Co-Founder of CRE OneSource, Board Chair of Radius AI, Founder/Manager of Habanero Ventures & Investment Company
We are all watching and waiting to see what happens with autonomous vehicles (especially those of us who live in Metro Phoenix as we have a number of companies testing AV’s every day). We thought they would never come, then we thought they would be here in 2020, and now… here is an update.
Turns out making the car truly autonomous is extremely hard. {Click to Tweet} Why? There are a ton of issues like:
- Some jaywalker could hold up traffic if they wanted to simply stop in the middle of the intersection. As we all know, jaywalking in some cities is ---common and accepted, resulting in multiple traffic jams a day.
?- Local nuances, like going 15-20 mph over the speed limit in California, are normal for us but difficult to program in AVs.
- What are the algorithms for animals as they cross the street? Social issues abound.
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