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user-inactivated  ·  3496 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Is Big: A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country

But human drivers don't know where the lane markers are if they're obscured either, so staying on the road, in roughly the right lane, isn't worse than a human driver is going to do. Alternately, if they become widespread enough, sticking rfid tags or something in the lane markers to help robots out isn't unreasonable. Working without infrastructural support is cool and probably necessary to get the technology out the door, but if we're all riding robot cars we can insist that the infrastructure adapt.