Roads with Self-driving Cars
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2018 Report on Business magazine titled "Driverless follies". It explores the implications of self-driving cars - specifically, some of the ways it will affect traffic. If all the vehicles on the road are self-driving, traffic lights will disappear. Instead, intersections will be orchestrated using wifi. Pedestrians will become "hyper-aggressive" once they realize that these cars will do almost anything to avoid hitting them. These are interesting things to think about, as it will almost certainly happen in the relatively near future. However, there are some pretty significant details to get wrinkled out first. There was a scene in I Robot where Will Smith's self-driving car is suddenly hijacked. His car tells him "You are experiencing an accident" and it tries to crash him into a wall. Naturally, he outwits the AI and gets away, but what happens if your car were hacked in real life? Wit...