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Laying a trap for self-driving cars
We spend a lot of time and words on what autonomous cars can do, but sometimes it’s a more interesting question to ask what they can’t do. The limitations of a technology are at least as important as its capabilities. That’s what this little bit of performance art tells me, anyway. You can see the nature of “Autonomous trap 001” right away. One of the first and most important things a self-driving system will learn or be taught is how to interpret the markings on the road. This is the edge of a lane, this means it’s for carpools only, and so on.
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So, if a self-driving car overtakes another car by crossing a line which is broken on the inside and unbroken on the other, does that mean it can never cross back to the correct side of the road?