AI-equipped cars with a real sense of feeling in their tires. It’ll be like the sensation of touch for them. Everything they run over, they will feel. Make them learn that animals feel gross to touch. Make them feel remorse for running over a human. Boom! Self-driving safety solved!
I feel like this would be much easier to accomplish with acoustic sensors and wheel/suspension telemetry, given that an attentive human driver can sort of "feel" the road surface already.
