Bloomberg, sorry. The only way this could work, many years down the road
is if we embed systems in all the roads and all vehicles are connected to each other through this embedded " internet of the road".
Infrastructure week on steroids.
Ah, but that's not what they, or at least some of them are planning.
Back, years ago, there was a plan hatched in the bowels of Congress to gift the FAA flight management and monitoring tasks to a shell company, because, why not.
That shell company was going to launch satellites that would circle the globe, looking down on all the planes in flight that had their equipment on them. It sounded pretty interesting, except for reality. They wanted to dismantle the existing system. No backups, and researchers deemed this new system a problem because it could be compromised by any number of things, the least being solar flares. So their billion dollar gift would be perfect, if only the Sun would be kind enough to coordinate its tantrums with their system.
Imagine a HUGE Carrington level event that knocks out their system for weeks. There would be no planes flying, or not many, because the system deemed responsible for monitoring air travel would be either destrpoyed, or heavily compromised.
And there are plans to use GPS to provide support for autonomous cars. 'What could happen', people backing it wonder. Well, solar eruptions, satellite hacking, GPS blocking, software sideloaded updates, I can see that all falling apart.
Embedding wire in all the major highways sounds crazy, and is, actually, but might be the only way to effectively provide a reliable and efficient autonomous vehicle network for the country. Some have suggested using autonomous car carriers to load cars at one end, and unload them near the destination, rather than having each car being totally autonomous. It would make cross country travel faster and safer, and would be a massive boost for the transfer of goods too. Then only the interstates would have to be enhanced, and people could keep their 'dumb' cars for local travel. I kinda like that idea. It would be a great start to getting autonomous vehicles everywhere, if those carriers succeed.
