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The commercial systems are designed for the environments where they are supposed to work and no more. The parent said that the military vehicles can handle sand
by ironman1478 5y ago
The commercial systems are designed for the environments where they are supposed to work and no more. The parent said that the military vehicles can handle sand or snow. Neither of those are present in SF and the bay area in general. Waymo and the other companies are only going to deploy to climates that they have solved and in the background try to solve more operating environments.
- mwattsun 5y agoI was told by the Waymo trainer that Lidar doesn't work in the rain. It certainly rains here.
- ironman1478 5y agohe waymo vehicles seem to have a radar and that does operate in the rain. Also, the waymo vehicles have safety drivers, so my statement currently holds as they technically haven't released the vehicle in that environment in a full self driving mode. They will either need to figure out how to operate safely in rain or simply not deploy the fleet on those days if they cannot.