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Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahe... by maaaats on Saturday November 12, 2016 @12:37PM (#12938967)
As someone not living a place with huge, straight highways with perfect asphalt, I haven't seen anything making me believe it will be generally available soon.

Right now I'm in the mountains. Narrow, icy roads. Thick snow fall, making some of the sensors already available unreliable.

The Google approach is to map everything before hand, and mostly easy conditions. Tesla somewhat more general, but still not too difficult roads. Volvo has been the only one I've seen with something that might tackle these issues.

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Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahe... by sp332 on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:21PM (#12939655)
Audi had a car that would drift up Pike's Peak years ago. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/16/stanford-audi-tts-thunder... Ford is making headway on snow and rain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3399315/The-d... Last I checked, this was mostly a sensor problem. The dynamics of driving in slippery conditions is pretty well-studied.
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