Retired People Could Be Ideal Customers for Self-Driving Cars

Re:Retired People Could Be Ideal Customers for Self-Driving ... by wongarsu on Saturday February 23, 2019 @10:13PM (#19236890)

I live in a place that has a month of snow or so each year. But we also have snow plows and road salt, so the time roads are actually covered in snow are limited unless you are in the middle of nowhere.

Of course there are places where it's worse, and the US tends to have more extreme winters because of their unique geography (no mountain ranges that block wind from the North, combined with a huge land mass in the North). But that's the exception, most inhabited places have very managable winters.

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Re:Retired People Could Be Ideal Customers for Self-Driving ... by superkuh on Sunday February 24, 2019 @10:57AM (#19239039)

Ok. I am talking specifically about Minnesota, Wisconsin, (upper) Michigan, (northern) Iowa, North and South Dakota. These are not desolate places in the middle of nowhere. They are very inhabited. I specifically live in a state university city. These places have well established snow infrastructure. And what I said before is still true.

The winter I describe does exist. It exists for many tens of millions of people in the USA in many states.

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