What happens if a human-driven car comes up to the intersection and just stops in confusion instead of just driving on? Imagine the road rage of whomever is behind that guy.
If lights are out on a normal intersection, then it becomes like a four way stop, so I guess a confused driver might treat it as such, except there would be a lot of people following autonomous cars— in fact no non-confused human driver would even pause before crossing through the intersection. This would make people using the four-way stop protocol very mad.
All in all this sounds like a very dumb idea, even if the tech works perfectly, which it won’t.
If lights are out on a normal intersection, then it becomes like a four way stop, so I guess a confused driver might treat it as such, except there would be a lot of people following autonomous cars— in fact no non-confused human driver would even pause before crossing through the intersection. This would make people using the four-way stop protocol very mad.
All in all this sounds like a very dumb idea, even if the tech works perfectly, which it won’t.