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by snowwrestler 3908 days ago
The hard part of self-driving cars is not staying within the painted lines of the road, the hard part is avoiding other valuable things like cars, trucks, bikes, people, wildlife, etc. There is no reliable visual grid for those things.

Subways handle this problem by being given dedicated underground tunnels which exclude all those things. And even subways hit people sometimes when they fall onto the tracks.