[smileysteve]

> Self-driving cars will never do well in snow country during a blizzard.

to be more specific, human visible spectrum cameras looking for white lane markers will never do well in snow country.

For certain situations, different technologies are useful.

Drivers without polarized glasses won't perform optimally in snow or rain.

You include technologies like lidar, infrared, and radar and self driving can "see" a lot more in the snow and rain at a much longer distance than 20/20 vision through a safety windshield, with wipers.

"Self driving" "cars" that aren't dependent on properly marked roads, aren't sharing with human drivers, she drive at a "safe" speed will do just fine.

[bobthepanda]

> "Self driving" "cars" that aren't dependent on properly marked roads, aren't sharing with human drivers, she drive at a "safe" speed will do just fine.

Then you've just reinvented personal rapid transit, which has failed in the past because in general building totally separate rights of way only really works out cost-wise with really space-efficient modes like trains.

[hnburnsy]

Don't forget infrastructure updates and vehicle to vehicle communications!