Re:Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous drivi...
by upvotinglurker on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:55AM
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>>and presumably in limited weather conditions;
>Why's that?
Because Phoenix has extremely low precipitation: http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/phoenix/arizona/united-...
Sure but is this because of capability or number of vehicles?
>at limited times,
Sure, because drivers don't want to work late at night.
>and presumably in limited weather conditions;
Why's that?
>and most importantly that there's still a human driver in the vehicle at all times.
Sure, but this isn't due to capability, but for regulatory reasons. As far as I know, the firefly vehicles (the cute little bubble ones) don't have steering wheels, and were in use 3 years ago. This argument doesn't make sense to me.