Many people also seem to be under the mistaken impression that GPS provides sane routes for 100% of the driving you'd ever need to do. Every summer I visit a s

Many people also seem to be under the mistaken impression that GPS provides sane routes for 100% of the driving you'd ever need to do. Every summer I visit a shooting range at the end of a handmade [grass/dirt] road that has no mailing address. Even if I could program that route into a self-driving car: it can be a very difficult road for a skilled driver to navigate in a truck. You have to know where the ruts are, what angle to have the wheels at [lest you get stuck], where the soft spots are [after a rain], etc. Attempting it in a 4-door sedan loaded down w/ firearms is another matter entirely [unless you like picking grass out of your radiator.] For some reason: I can't imagine engineers from California have given much thought to this particular use-case. --- Google Maps can't even figure out my morning commute. Google would have me take a _non-existent road_ up to a drainage ditch. Then I'd need to scale a 60% grade up to the chainlink fence that surrounds _the rear_ of my building. I'll reiterate: I drive a 4 door sedan w/ a 4 cylinder engine... even if I managed the hill I don't know what Google expects me to do about the fence. --- I'm not saying driverless cars can't overcome these challenges. After all the TerraMax[1] was built by a Wisconsin company. Not everyone wants to own a brutish truck when a bit of human ingenuity can get a Ford Ka through the muds[2] just fine. ;-) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraMax_(vehicle) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraMax_(vehicle) [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66yISwURzE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66yISwURzE4