Re:Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source
by datawrangler on Friday March 18, 2016 @09:54PM
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Something I've long wondered: howwell do they deal with inclement weather?
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Re:Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source
by agildehaus on Friday March 18, 2016 @11:56PM
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They do well in rain but snow remains a problem, not due to icy roads (at SXSW Chris Urmson said they do well on slick roads) but that the "better than GPS" LIDAR-based location tracking stops working when snow is on the ground.
The car simply cannot figure out where it is when there's a significant layer of snow on the ground because the reference maps stop looking like what the car is seeing.