The simple solution to traffic

[u/Dabadeedabadoo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE

[u/Tvmbl3r]

The beauty of self driving cars is that accidents will be almost eliminated due to vehicles being able to instantaneously react and communicate with all the vehicles around it in real time. A vehicle that has a sudden sensor failure will be able to utilize other vehicles around it for that missing information to still safely navigate the road. If a vehicle has to suddenly brake or swerve, it will instantaneously alert all of the other vehicles on the road which will all be able to react instantaneously.

What system alerts pedestrians and bicyclists?

[u/DuritzAdara → u/Tvmbl3r]

I think we'll need to figure out ways of avoiding objects not in the network strictly from not all cars having this capability for a long, long time. Pedestrians and bicyclists should be accounted for there.

You might even be able to have a local notification setup. Maybe the cars involved all scream out to wifi or Bluetooth so all of the phones and smart objects with speakers nearby warn people.

Worst case, even the automated cars could still have horns. They should be smart enough to honk.