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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by bsder on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:34PM (#19640368)
> Good luck when it snows. And it's 3 AM. And no one else is on the road, so there are no context clues.

Um, a human sucks in this case, too.

There is a reason we put reflectors on the lane markers and rumble cuts in the road.

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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by brandonmenc on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:06AM (#19641892)
> reflectors on the lane markers

I'm from the snow belt, and these are invisible until the plows come through.

We'll eventually embed sensors in the road, but that's not really general purpose self-driving imo.

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