Waymo showed off their tech for driving in snow/rain in Google IO this year. They've also done a lot of their testing in the SF Bay Area, which is a pretty dif

Waymo showed off their tech for driving in snow/rain in Google IO this year. They've also done a lot of their testing in the SF Bay Area, which is a pretty difficult urban area to drive in. They're obviously launching in Phoenix because it's the easiest major city to drive in, but they're also obviously going to expand to other places once they get successes in Phoenix. Honestly, to me, the more interesting question is: As self-driving cars slowly expand to other cities, will other cities intentionally start making their lane markings more obvious and doing other things to make it easier for self-driving cars to drive in? Sometimes, shuffling around blame can cause things to get fixed. Previously, with bad lane markings, you could blame bad drivers for accidents. But with self-driving cars, you can only blame the software. So if a self-driving car company is willing to serve one city with good lane markings but not another city with bad lane markings, suddenly the city government gets the blame for bad lane markings.