Originally Posted by
cooker
At the moment biking and walking are freely available to us and are also more or less anonymous pursuits unless we choose to make our location and route data available; so the idea that we may soon be expected (read: forced) to carry technology that is designed to make somebody else less responsible for the safety of their driving or their cars' driving, and which might also put us under increased surveillance, is kind of offensive to me.
Wow, that is a single semicolon-divided sentence!
What if the chips are not GPS-monitorable, but only get sensed by the cars within a certain range, e.g. 100ft? What if the tech is just an extra device, like a bike light, that broadcasts at a generic frequency, which triggers driverless cars to slow/stop if they don't register anything on their radar that corresponds with the presence of the signal?
In other words, what is wrong with cyclists/pedestrians being able to signal their presence to cars using a certain designated frequency? It wouldn't absolve the cars of the responsibility to sense pedestrians/cyclists and avoid collisions, but it would give us something to do to make certain they are aware of our presence.