[ksenzee]

Google is betting on a system that depends really heavily on detailed mapping. I'd love to know their plan for determining when the map is out of date, because of road construction or whatever. That seems like the hardest part of the whole thing to maintain long-term.

[ghaff]

AFAIK, pretty much everyone is. That's really been the big shift over the past few years that's allowed for fairly impressive autopilot levels without AIs having to "understand" and parse the world to nearly the degree people do. Presumably vehicles connected to the system will be able to contribute to updates but maintaining current, high resolution maps across a wide area will certainly be a challenge. It's not unreasonable to think that the government could play some role as well as it does for marine navigation.

[empath75]

I imagine if the car ran into something that significantly deviated from what it expected, it would drop out of automatic driving. But google maps is pretty remarkably good at keeping up to date.

[elchief]

I have a feeling they track you with your Android, and notice when no one uses a particular road, and can check if it's under construction.