| I'm rooting for you, but I live in snow country and always have a chuckle any time someone says self driving will be ready soon. There's so many situations that need to be handled when driving in winter and some of them I can't even imagine how you'd address in software. Winter here changes daily between - no road lines visible - snow packed into ice randomly making the road a a camouflage pattern - snow is fresh/deep so no road is visible and you navigate based on the slight hump in the snow where you know there's a curb - same as above, but instead of a curb a slight indent where there's a ditch - slush piles outside the tire lanes, which if hit will suck you in or cause you to spin out - ice/snow on hills, so time your arrival for rolling stops at intersections because stopping is not an option - active snowfall (limited camera vision, and I'm guessing reduced/useless signal from lidar) - hail - sporadic black ice (its easy to slow down when its icy everywhere, but knowing when and where black ice is likely when it's sporadic is a skill) - the "lanes" formed by peoples tires in the snow often don't align with the official road, and sometimes a lane goes missing in this situation And all that's after you deal with sensor cleaning. |