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Yesterday I had to drive at night in awfully intense rain and I was very close to stopping because it was at the very limit of acceptable safety for me. My nigh
by gruturo 4y ago
Yesterday I had to drive at night in awfully intense rain and I was very close to stopping because it was at the very limit of acceptable safety for me. My night vision is not so good, cars in the opposite direction were blinding me with their headlights, and road markers become invisible in the rain in Germany (not in US or Italy, I don't know why this is so bad in Germany - different paint?).
Self driving doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than me (including knowing when to stop!).
Tesla isn't there, but I'm pretty sure they can get there in my lifetime. May be way way too late for the angry customers, the courts, the investors and the stock market, but it's not unreachable.
- jeffreygoesto 4y agoThe paint of the lines contains little glass beads that reflect your headlights back to you [0]. If the water film is higher than the part of the beads sticking out of the paint, the light bounces off further away from you. Maybe it also depends on the roughness of the asphalt of the surface gets uniformly wet or not? Bott's dots are better in that aspect but they stick out considerably... [0] https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1yRIhHpXXXXXUXFXXq6xXFXXXr/220937744/HTB1yRIhHpXXXXXUXFXXq6xXFXXXr.jpg https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1yRIhHpXXXXXUXFXXq6xXFXXXr/220...
- gruturo 4y agoMaybe Germany isn't using them? It doesn't take a heavy rain to make them practically disappear - which I haven't experienced elsewhere. But that was already a good starting point for some searches, thank you!