This also seems like a fantastic addition to snow plows. They could even serve as a great testing platform--still human driven, but with tons of real world snow

This also seems like a fantastic addition to snow plows. They could even serve as a great testing platform--still human driven, but with tons of real world snowy road data. Fast forward a few years and autonomous snow plows will be really nice--an army of plows working through the night and even during the worst storms.