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The thing that I don’t understand about self driving is the need for it to be this high tech super computer thing.
Especially in the case of a tunnel why not just have it drive on a wire like robots and fork trucks in factories do currently.
Outside of the system to track the wire all you need are the sensors which a lot of new cars already have for keeping distance with variable cruise control and automatic braking.
Or hell it’s a tunnel just make it a conveyor belt like the car wash.
Or i don’t know, maybe some sort of electric underground tram system. You can even give it a fancy sci-fi name like “rapid subterranean transit system.”
All those things have too much friction. What you really want are some metal rails...
Oh maybe we can chain a bunch of cars together so they can accelerate and brake in synch.
And if the wheels were metal on the metal rail, it'd be even lower friction
I bet it could be retrofitted to have a system like the "WEDway" at George Bush airport in Houston.