mmm - yet another load of optimistic talk with little realism!
As Andrea explains: “Imagine if your car is approaching a broken down bus. Cars attached to the smart city network would be able to know if it was safe to go around the bus or not, pretty much instantly.”
How exactly would cars attached to this network know that it was safe to go around the bus (presumably without having to look) unless every vehicle that could be on the road was also on that network? Horse / pedestrian / cyclist / road-sweeper / car not attached to the network - there are many reasons why there could be something the other side of this hypothetical broken down bus...
The biggest issue with autonomous technology is the sales patter which leads people to believe that they no longer need to take responsibility for their decisions - you are attached to the smart city network, you no longer have to see whether it is safe to move around the broken down bus - the system will tell you... bang, oops, killed someone - well they should have been plugged into our smart city network - collateral damage - carry on!
Alasdair