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Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by stephengillie on Sunday June 10, 2018 @02:40AM (#17276922)
Yandex Taxi has Youtube videos of their self-driving car. This video of a car navigating a snowy Moscow street is especially impressive [0]. They don't seem to come up in self-driving car discussions on HN.

[0] https://youtu.be/Bx08yRsR9ow

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Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by amelius on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:19AM (#17277976)
A system which uses a LiDAR can be conceptually a lot simpler than one without. It tells you where all the obstacles are (stationary or not), so it naturally circumvents the main problem of Autopilot.
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