re: #228 Anymouse 🌹

I still haven’t figured out how a driverless car would work around here. On services such as Google Maps or Mapquest, most of our county roads are not shown. I have a state gazetteer for driving out in unfamiliar areas here. (My village’s streets are on such services, so I presume you could get to my house.)

If roads are not shown on Internet mapping services, I presume they don’t appear on devices in your car to show you a route to your destination.

I presume the question of driverless cars being a big thing replacing regular cars won’t have a significant impact for the rest of my life. (Perhaps we could put chain tracks in roads, similar to some trolleys or car washes, then cars could use those. Lower tech, harder to hack.)

My mother has an old GPS from 2012 that has no built-in internet capabilities, you have to pay money to update the onboard maps and it hasn’t been updated in years. It still shows stores in its memory that shut down years ago and doesn’t know ones that opened since. Compare that to my Galaxy S7, which uses Google Maps and is updated practically on the hour and yet can still get lost and confused if i take a side-street not programmed into it.

I strongly suspect that as the demand becomes an issue, companies will rise to meet it. If the tech becomes widespread enough that it counts for a significant portion of the cars on the road, better and more accurate maps will become less a luxury and more a necessity if companies wish to make more money.