[realandreskytt]

I’d recommend visiting Finland. In these parts, there’s basically 3 months of optimal visibility. The rest is fog, rain, snow, sleet and road conditions that would shut down most of US. Yet people drive and do so safely. “What people can do” is a bit different from “what an average us driver can be expected to do”

[agurk]

And as a taxi driver once told me in Helsinki there are four seasons in Finland - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Construction. Even when the visibility is optimal they'll likely be tearing up the road anyway.

[darawk]

It may be that regions with better climates receive these vehicles first. It's relatively straightforward to detect the prevalent conditions and refuse to drive if the weather is outside the scope for which the vehicle is rated. As the technology matures, that scope should broaden.

[justtopost]

So road trips are unaccounted for? Not a comforting idea that taking your car to another area will render it functionally unsafe on the (differently designed) roadways.

[Piskvorrr]

Essentially the same as "smartphones are about 95% useless without mobile broadband". Except for the tiny detail that lack of mobile coverage is unlikely to kill you...

[darawk]

That's a price I would very very happily pay for a self-driving car that works in my city. If I want to take a road trip, i'll rent a traditional car.

[justtopost]

We clearly have different lifestyles. Renting a car 3 times a week to venture into the mountains is beyond unaffordable, much less once a month. Do you stay that static in your life?

[village-idiot]

Doesn’t findland have a higher vehicle fatality rate than other nations?

[treerock]

Seems to be less than half the US rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

[village-idiot]

Ah, I was thinking of the UK. Finland has 50% more fatalities per mile than the UK.