Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow

Re:Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow by edejong on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:28AM (#18012690)

The reason Amazon plans like that is because it is faster. Left turns with traffic lights have a higher average waiting time. Also, the route can have left turns, they just have a much higher penalty.

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Re:Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow by Scarblac on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:39AM (#18013519)

That sounds like an assumption that holds in the US much more than elsewhere, because in the US you don't have to wait for the traffic light if you turn right, but elsewhere you do.

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Re:Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow by ghaff on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:17AM (#18014214)

The problem is usually more with unprotected left turns at stop signs [or pulling out of driveways]--not traffic lights. (Though traffic lights can be an even bigger issue if there's no left turn arrow--leading to people making turns when the light has either just turned red or it's just turned green and the oncoming traffic technically has priority.)

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