Is there anyone bullish on autonomous vehicles who can explain how this is solved? The whole industry seems to be ignoring an essential part of driving is communicating with other humans to navigate coordination problems.

Long term autonomous vehicles will talk to each other so it won’t matter

Before this tho, the best use cases for self driving cars aren’t city driving. Their long haul truck and delivery driving. 

This issue is just a problem that can be solved with time. If you think it could be solved than it will be solved, and much faster than most think

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Doesn’t them talking to each other only solve the problem if human drivers are banned?

Maybe I’m too pessimistic but my assumption is people will become less accommodating as more autonomous vehicles are on the road, which will force regulation that diminishes the autonomy of anyone not getting around via autonomous car.

No. imagine the nice ppl today who would let someone in. It’s say 1/6 of ppl. But it’s enough for the system to work. So you just need enough cars. 

They also could help each other by slowing down to create space for more than one robot car at a time, or drive the perfect speed in advance to match with a perfect merge when possible or to let one in without stopping traffic behind them ect