Comment by TeMPOraL
6 hours ago
> a private company's equipment blocked the public roads
That would be like every traffic incident ever? I don't think US has public cars or state-owned utilities.
6 hours ago
> a private company's equipment blocked the public roads
That would be like every traffic incident ever? I don't think US has public cars or state-owned utilities.
My concern is that one company can have a malfunction which shuts down traffic in a city. That seems new or historically rare. I understand large scale deployment will find new system design flaws so I’m not outraged, but I do think we should consider what this means for us, if anything.
I think the blog is strongly hinting us to focus on the real problem -- the electrical utility and I have to agree.
The only other option I can think of is to build some kind of high density low power solar powered IoT network that is independent of current infrastructure but then where is the spectrum for that?
A power outage should not cause robot cars to block intersections.
Typically people move aside for emergency vehicles
Ask any EMT or paramedic - an astonishingly large proportion of human drivers panic in the presence of an ambulance and just slam their brakes on.