The mapping for a self-driving car needs to be much more detailed than what you see in google street-view. It includes things like the height of curbs. Here's a

The mapping for a self-driving car needs to be much more detailed than what you see in google street-view. It includes things like the height of curbs. Here's an overview: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel... Also, errors in street-view are minor annoyance; for a self-driving car, an error in its internal map could be deadly.