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TRI's association with UMich and MIT makes them more biased towards issues about the difficulty of running self-driving cars in adverse weather conditions because that's the problem that all the researchers at UMich and MIT have had all the time and it's a problem that Google/Stanford have never had in always sunny California.

I have personally heard of the complaints of John Leonard (MIT) and Edwin Olson (UMich) about the severe lack of research of self-driving car robustness in weather conditions. The issue is real.