Autonomous vehicles have emerged as a revolutionary technology that has the potential to transform the transportation industry. However, the key challenge that the industry faces is ensuring the safety of passengers and other road users. Artificial intelligence and autonomous control have limitations when it comes to making intelligent and safe decisions in unpredictable environments, where humans do not always follow rules. Unlike humans, who have the ability to make corrective actions in response to unexpected events, autonomous vehicles follow a set of rules and cannot adapt to unforeseen circumstances.

For instance, a semi-trailer driver making a U-turn on a highway is illegal and unexpected for an autonomous vehicle. In contrast, a human driver would recognize this situation and make necessary adjustments. The inability of autonomous vehicles to make real-time corrective actions to unexpected events could lead to serious accidents and significant costs. Therefore, it is imperative to ramp up testing and expose autonomous vehicles to real-world scenarios that challenge their capabilities to adapt to unexpected events.

One way to address this issue is to conduct testing on controlled environments such as local racetracks and horse tracks. These environments provide an opportunity to test autonomous vehicles in a safe and controlled environment, allowing them to learn and improve continuously. However, the testing of autonomous vehicles needs to be supplemented with an enterprise solution that enables the vehicles to communicate with each other and be controlled by a centralized system.

This enterprise solution, or mother ship, monitors and controls each point of motion in a swarm of traffic, ensuring that each vehicle follows the basic rules of being free from colliding with other vehicles or objects. The mother ship would monitor corridors of travel in 3D, ensuring that they are free of random objects and debris. These corridors would be like 3D highways in the sky, starting from the road and taking off into the sky. Flying is safer than driving because there is less to collide with and more open space. The whole swarm of vehicles using these travel corridors would be monitored to ensure positive swarm roles of safety with speed of travel.

Investing in the early testing of autonomously driven vehicles and developing enterprise solutions for autonomous vehicle control would yield significant benefits in terms of safety, efficiency, and environmental impact. The potential for autonomous vehicles to revolutionize transportation is enormous, and early investment in this technology will help to bring it to market faster, improving the lives of individuals and communities.

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