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To be fair to computers I’m not sure human vision accounts for that, we just get lucky and fall prey to survivor bias :-)

• dmix 9y ago
  > Good thing about radar is that, unlike lidar (which is visible wavelength), it can see through rain, snow, fog and dust - Elon Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/753843823546028040 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/753843823546028040 Radar has been used on snowploughs to avoid rocks/curbs/etc buried in the snow (article from 2004): http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040302/full/news040301-2.html http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040302/full/news040301-2.htm... Ford developed a LIDAR algorithm that can "detect" snow flakes and still be effective, this video shows driving in real snow: https://qz.com/637509/driverless-cars-have-a-new-way-to-navigate-in-rain-or-snow/ https://qz.com/637509/driverless-cars-have-a-new-way-to-navi... Computers can provide near "perfect" speed/traction ratios based on active road conditions... which humans are merely estimating based on "feel", without instant direct feedback from the wheel traction sensors, combined with whatever (potentially limited) winter driving experience they have. Computers can also "remember" any specific location of the route from hundreds of thousand of other rides in the past and of other cars on the road communicating in real time. In 5yrs I'd expect to prefer putting my trust in any self-driving car on winter roads over a human any day...