Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
by walrus1066 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:09PM
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The weather problem needs to be solved if you want fully autonomous vehicles with no human on standby, otherwise when it snows you'd have a bunch of autonomous vehicles stood still, blocking the road not knowing what to do.
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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
by bb611 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:26PM
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There are tens of millions of US customers who live in areas that never receive snow and rarely receive rain. It's clear there are a few different technical solutions, and probably the engineers working on these problems will think of a few more in the next decade, if it's a major challenge SDCs will just be targeted at minimal weather markets to start out.