03-20-2019, 04:50 PM
(03-19-2019, 01:08 PM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: I'm all for it. I don't trust autonomous vehicles to avoid me.
I worry more about the human drivers myself. I ride several times a week in an area where Waymo (i.e. Google) has been road testing their autonomous cars for several years now. I think overall the robot cars have a better awareness of the presence of motorcycles than the human drivers.
I think radar reflectors are just the beginning. I suspect that future cars will have gadgets that communicate position and speed information to all of the other cars around them. It's already happening in aviation. This year I get to buy a new mandated device for my plane that sends my position info to all other planes in the area. It's the first step in eliminating human based air traffic control.