• Geek_King@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s a pretty good point, the part about if it’s raining or snowing, LIDAR can’t be used, which could leave the system in a much worst spot. It’s getting to the point where I’m beginning to think that fully self driving cars just won’t be 100% possible in all conditions in all locations.

    For instance, where I live, we can have some bad winters, snow, ice, slippy conditions. People have a tough time with these conditions, and I’d imagine it’d be even harder for a self driving car, especially given how the sensor suites work. My car has that intelligent cruise control where it’ll slow down when it senses a car ahead of me, then match it’s speed. That feature stops working if too much snow accumulates on the sensors.