[djsumdog]

I use to live in an area that got heavy snow and had an all wheel drive vehicle (a WRX). I have lost control in the snow, even driving slowly in 2nd gear, under 30kph. For a human at least, your reactions need to be pretty automatic: point the wheels where you want to go and .. and this only applies to AWD/4x4: don't break. You don't really want to accelerate much, but you don't want to lose power to the wheels. Keep calm and the car will straighten.

It comes down to balancing, and we know we can build machines that can balance. Segways, bipedal robots, etc. So we have some of the tech and algorithms to do this in other applications, but applying it to autonomous vehicles will be its own beast.