That's the whole innovation. They reframed the problem in order to make it easier. Everyone used to think about how to get the car to comprehend everything in t

That's the whole innovation. They reframed the problem in order to make it easier. Everyone used to think about how to get the car to comprehend everything in the world. Google just provides the car a highly detailed map and then the car has fewer things to focus on. They replace some of the complexity by using huge amounts of data. It's a very 'Google' solution really. This is why Uber and others are scrambling to buy mapping companies. In the future the software goes hand in hand with a hyper detailed map.