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As someone not living a place with huge, straight highways with perfect asphalt, I haven't seen anything making me believe it will be generally available soon.
by maaaats 10y ago
As someone not living a place with huge, straight highways with perfect asphalt, I haven't seen anything making me believe it will be generally available soon.
Right now I'm in the mountains. Narrow, icy roads. Thick snow fall, making some of the sensors already available unreliable.
The Google approach is to map everything before hand, and mostly easy conditions. Tesla somewhat more general, but still not too difficult roads. Volvo has been the only one I've seen with something that might tackle these issues.
- sp332 10y agoAudi had a car that would drift up Pike's Peak years ago. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/16/stanford-audi-tts-thunderhill-video/ http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/16/stanford-audi-tts-thunder... Ford is making headway on snow and rain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3399315/The-driverless-car-cope-SNOW-Ford-vehicle-blizzards-tackle-slippery-corners.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3399315/The-d... Last I checked, this was mostly a sensor problem. The dynamics of driving in slippery conditions is pretty well-studied.