China's first cross border smart project making great progress. This is with Vietnam
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China's first cross border smart project making great progress. This is with Vietnam
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China is planning to spend $376 billion for road-vehicle-cloud integration. I guess this would be a big step toward accident/congestion reduction and autonomous driving. The US had similar plans but abandoned those because they don't have the technologies. I think China's robust 5G/5.5G infrastructures help a lot.
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$376 billion is an insane amount of money, near the same order of magnitude as the BRI. What benefit will accrue that will be worth it? Will it allow complete autonomous driving from city to city? How is this worth such an investment?
In addition to the expected increase in efficiency in communication and transportation, autonomous driving can save human lives. Last time I heard that more than 100k Chinese died in traffic accidents every year. Many traffic accidents in China are due to human errors.
If autonomous driving can cut down the fatalities and injuries, it is all worth the money already, not to mention the save on property and productivity loss, and the expense on medical and emergency services.
seems extremely expensive and maintenance heavy? maybe a bit premature. what about using a satellites-based system instead
This seems like a sensible alternative, considering the G60 mega-constellation is being launched now.
Very disappointing to see more subsidies for cars rather than improving infrastructure for the most common modes of transportation in China: walking, biking and transit.
Transit and biking can be much more easily digitized and automated. Walking, of course, is instinctual given a safe passage.