B_Doughtie wrote:
What’s the real time line of that becoming common? At min 20 years away?
Don't need autonomous vehicles, just improvements with ADAS, so cars brake/steer upon detecting imminent collision with a cyclist or pedestrian. Even when being manually driven. The tech is pretty much all there. Radar/lidar/vision, 5G V2X, path planning, etc.. Just a matter of engineering it into a cohesive system, etc.
I think the first cars that do this are pretty imminent. They're already deep in R&D, which usually means 2-4 years to consumer production.
But it may take a decade or more for cars equipped with the new generation of ADAS to become the predominant vehicles on the road. And it just takes one muscle car bro with his retro Hemi to kill a bunch of cyclists, even in ~2035.