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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by walrus01 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:58PM (#30170045)
I know next to nothing about lidar engineering but 60GHz band radars can still function out to several hundred meters in rain. It is significantly attenuated as the rain rate (in mm/hour) increases, but it takes a lot of rain to make it completely useless.
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by mensetmanusman on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:59PM (#30171589)
This depends on how powerful your antenna are, $200 wigig transmitters will struggle with much range over those distances.
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by walrus01 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:12PM (#30171715)
And how directional and narrow the gain pattern is.
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by rabuse on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:35PM (#30170533)
Summers in South Florida will put that to the challenge.
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by LegitShady on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:48PM (#30170700)
People can't see in that weather either
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by shiftpgdn on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:32PM (#30171896)
This has been my argument all along. People are driving in unsafe conditions when they should be stopped.
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by ironman1478 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @08:10PM (#30172192)
In florida, I will say when it truly pours like that people do tend to drive extremely slowly and turn on their hazards. Also, sometimes these storms just appear out of nowhere. Over the summer I was driving from the Vero beach area to fort lauderdale and on the way to Vero beach, clear skies and on the way back there was an ENORMOUS storm that flooded streets and you couldn't see crap. It just happens
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by kylecordes on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:54PM (#30173070)
Moreover, contrary to some other commenters:

Unless it truly is "once-in-a-lifetime", or very brief, you cannot just stop and give up. To be a viable replacement, a vehicle must (as a human driver would) continue to make progress even in extremely adverse conditions. The progress might be much slower than usual, might be a re-routing (back up away from floodwater and go elsewhere), etc.

Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by chasd00 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:14AM (#30177785)
just because you can't write code to handle it doesn't mean a human can't. thousands and thousands of people drive in rain, sleet, snow and hail daily and do it just fine.
Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by bluGill on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:54AM (#30178363)
Humans do not do just fine - look at the statistics of car accidents. Humans refuse to admit how bad they really are at driving.