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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

That makes total sense to me grant. I’m on the periphery of some AI projects and understand the concept of the large language model, and feeding your AI more data to make it “smarter”. Great explanation.

One thing we haven’t discussed here is that autonomous driving would be far safer if we removed the biggest variable on the road - us. I can see a not too distant future where certain heavily urban areas could ban people operating vehicles and make all transportation autonomous. In that scenario you could even network the cars such that they are communicating and coordinating all movements and operating in concert with each other. Almost like a drone swarm on wheels.

When I was younger and thinking about this, my thought was that the cars would be networked so they would operate as a group rather than singly. That seems like the next step past autonomous. When I was thinking about it, there was also some information exchange about/for the road itself as well. That may not be as useful or cost effective.

I picture flawless zipper merging, pot hole/detritus avoidance, and possibly even higher speeds.