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Re:Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow by archagon on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:44PM (#18011713)
While probably true, "then don't do that" almost never works as an excuse to convince new adopters of your technology.
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Re:Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow by ben509 on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:40PM (#18012027)
I'm not so sure that's true. Or, maybe, "that's user error" is what works because it seems like it's far too easy to convince users to blame themselves.
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Re:Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow by archagon on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:45PM (#18012064)
Well, when all your friends can drive in the snow but your fancy-pants car can't, that's not a very compelling value proposition.
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