I remember reading about some design studies for "car-to-pedestrian communication" a while ago. I think one idea was to project a zebra crossing in front of the car to let pedestrians know it's safe to cross.
I think ideas like that show that there might be ways to solve those problems - but interaction with a self-driving car will likely be very different than interaction with a human-driven one. (And you'd have to teach/convince people to accept this new mode of communication)
In any case I agree it's very early days to even attempt to solve those problems.
(Of course it's possible things will go the easy route and self-driving cars will more be regarded like trains and restricted to special routes strongly off-limits to pedestrians.)
I think ideas like that show that there might be ways to solve those problems - but interaction with a self-driving car will likely be very different than interaction with a human-driven one. (And you'd have to teach/convince people to accept this new mode of communication)
In any case I agree it's very early days to even attempt to solve those problems.
(Of course it's possible things will go the easy route and self-driving cars will more be regarded like trains and restricted to special routes strongly off-limits to pedestrians.)