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As someone that grew up driving in the midwest I get a little nervous about autonomous driving being developed in California. It's a bit of a cliche, but CA dri
by jobu 11y ago
As someone that grew up driving in the midwest I get a little nervous about autonomous driving being developed in California. It's a bit of a cliche, but CA drivers are notoriously bad drivers in winter conditions.
Of course the rational side of my brain knows there are brilliant people from all over the country (world?) working on autonomous driving for these companies, and they will have to do testing in all weather conditions across the whole country.
Perhaps it would help relax fears if companies like Google or Tesla opened (and publicised) an all-weather driving lab in someplace like northern Michigan.
- yohui 11y agoNot northern Michigan, but there is the University of Michigan's "Mcity" near Detroit: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/23020-u-m-opens-mcity-test-environment-for-connected-and-driverless-vehicles http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/23020-u-m-opens-mc...
- phyllostachys 11y agoUber's Advanced Technology Center [] is in Pittsburgh. Having grew up about 1.5 hours north of there, that is a good area to test snowy conditions. [] - http://www.uberatc.com/ http://www.uberatc.com/ (which seems like a unofficial site but I can't find anything else)
- yincrash 11y agoHaving spent multiple winters in Pittsburgh, it's not like a winter in the Rockies or the Tetons where as the GGGP describes, there are only single plowed lanes in multilane highways because it's snowing every day for two weeks straight. In Pittsburgh, the lanes get plowed fairly quickly and salted to death.
- phyllostachys 11y agoI suppose I was thinking more about the snow storms up near Lake Erie, which is only about 2 hours from Pittsburgh. Living in Erie, there was a few storms that led to I-90 having whiteout conditions and single lane traffic. Winters in Pittsburgh are fairly mild in comparison. Having never lived near the Rockies, I don't know how it compares. They probably are worse though.
- smm2000 11y agoTahoe is only a few hours away from Bay Area and virtually everyone* in bay area goes there at least a few times a year to ski. This year Tahoe got a lot of snow. *everyone = Google/Apple/FB employees
- Dwolb 11y agoYeah I mean Tahoe gets crazy snow, but there are some things that happen to the road at super cold temperatures mixed with varying levels of rain or snow. I think these mixtures are more prevalent east snd north of CA.