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Old 11-19-2017, 12:47 AM   #81 (permalink)
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Each individual member of the platoon will have a cone of probability re-calculated constantly about where it can get safely, sort of a flight envelope. As soon as the first vehicle senses problems, the last vehicle will be looking for off-ramps, shoulders or run-off areas.

It'll work great until they platoon across a bridge that was built in the 1940s with certain assumptions about traffic density. Then they'll all go at once.

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