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Re:Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals by pinko on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:37AM (#12480013)
I agree with your point, but I'm not sure about your example! Can't self-driving cars "see" around the blind corner much earlier than a human could due to the fact that they have sensors on the very front of the car, as opposed to our "sensors" (eyes) back behind the windshield? They might do better!
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Re:Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals by Strom on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:47AM (#12480101)
Not only the placement, but with radars [1] you can see through a bunch of objects like trees, wooden fences, and indeed also hedges. Of course making sense of the data in a completely new environment is hard. This is where fleet learning helps a lot.

[1] This one police radar seems to also nicely work through stone http://www.camero-tech.com/product.php?ID=38

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Re:Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals by smileysteve on Monday September 12, 2016 @04:31PM (#12483360)
The self driving car can also react without a >=.7 second reaction time; which, at 60 mph is nearly 100 feet.
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