Self-driving cars can be fooled by fake signals

[Chan790]

84. I think if they don't place RFID...

the roadway is going to basically not exist for a major emerging technology...and that basically means tough shit for those people...they live on a road that doesn't functionally-exist and will likely come to cease to exist at-all.

Yes, I realize that answer comes down to "So...F those people" but...they're screwed. The technology doesn't have to be able to go everywhere...it needs to be able to go 97-99% of everywhere. The other 1% are people who are going to be defined by the technology passing them by. They'll be the minority still driving non-autonomous cars or they'll move or the technology will spread to their area eventually. (I do feel their pain...my town didn't even have cable until 1991. It sucked...but it wasn't an impediment to deployment of cable TV or the growth of cable providers.) If you have a self-driving car and that's your destination...you're also SOL. Things not navigable by the technology will be invisible to the technology. Sic transit gloria Mundi.

So maybe not your road but we're 5 years from a autonomous car that can navigate the Coquihalla (British Columbia Highway 5) in the dead of winter in the dead-of-night. It's considered the most dangerous wintertime highway in North America...that and not far-rural roadways will the winter-test of an autonomous technology. If a Google car can be made to regularly and safely navigate the Coq...that's a coup d'grace to the opposition.