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Originally Posted by red-beard
If the cars drive themselves, or really are centrally controlled, why would there be traffic signals?
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Because the idiot that made the picture took an existing rendering and added a bunch of phantasy circles around the vehicles showing the autonomous thing they are doing.
Seriously though, this will be here before 2040 - not on private cars but on trucks. First there will be a piggy-back system where one or two trucks follow a lead truck that is driven by a human. Later they will run on their own.
I am not sure about the plan of all of the vehicles communicating with each other, but a standalone system can be made more reliable than a human, no question.
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