Let's be more realistic here. In any weather condition - this thing will live and die on reliability. To get to the needed reliability(say 10x better than huma

Let's be more realistic here. In any weather condition - this thing will live and die on reliability. To get to the needed reliability(say 10x better than humans, i.e one accident per 2.5 million miles you need to drive at least 25 million miles, but considering the variety of situations this needs to be tested against , maybe more than a billion miles). To solve this google has built a simulator simulating all the roads of california(4 million miles) with a variety of situations and is lobbying to get this approved as a way for testing. And that's just for testing. You still have to solve problem! Another data point - hyundai will be investing $70 billion in the next few years and wants to hire 7000 new engineers to work on their self driving car project. This is not startup land.