By December 31, 02026, autonomous vehicles will be banned from public roadways (2021)
Posted by 1970-01-01 3 days ago
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Comment by kstrauser 2 days ago
I have a bet with a friend that in 6 years there’ll be autonomous-only highway lanes somewhere, like HOV lanes we have today. It makes perfect sense to me. If you have part of the road where you can predict how every vehicle will act, especially if they can coordinate, you could end up with basically a high speed train of tightly packed vehicles zipping along at record traffic densities.
Comment by thegrim33 2 days ago
It's been my belief for over 20 years now that dedicated/instrumented roads for autonomous vehicles is the only way autonomous cars will ever be a thing, at mass scale, other than via the invention of true AGI (which I still don't think we're close to). Such roads becoming a thing within the next 6 years though, I'd doubt.
Comment by kstrauser 2 days ago
I think there might be a trial stretch of road somewhere in a few years, although surely not widespread. Such a thing feels inevitable to me, though, if we’re going to have self-driving cars at all.
Comment by markx2 3 days ago
> “In five years' time, by December 31, 02026"
That leading 0 is odd.
Comment by square_usual 3 days ago
The Long Now foundation (which runs Long Bets) uses them: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...
Comment by AnimalMuppet 3 days ago
It's a "long now" thing (fetish?) that I always mock as the "medium now" because they only add one 0.
Comment by shagie 2 days ago
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550 For a fun read taken to April 1 absurdity.
Comment by floxy 3 days ago
Octal 02026 = AD 1046