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Five Reasons are provided by the U.K. DailyMail on why we won't be seeing autonomous cars take over any time soon.
SNOW AND WEATHER
[...] Heavy snow, rain, fog and sandstorms can obstruct the view of cameras. Light beams sent out by laser sensors can bounce off snowflakes and think they are obstacles.
Radar can see through the weather, but it doesn't show the shape of an object needed for computers to figure out what it is.
[...] PAVEMENT LINES AND CURBS
Across the globe, roadway marking lines are different, or they may not even exist. Lane lines aren't standardized, so vehicles have to learn how to drive differently in each city.
[...] DEALING WITH HUMAN DRIVERS
For many years, autonomous vehicles will have to deal with humans who don't always play by the rules.
[...] LEFT TURNS
Deciding when to turn left in front of oncoming traffic without a green arrow is one of the more difficult tasks for human drivers and one that causes many crashes. Autonomous vehicles have the same trouble.
[...] CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE
The fatal Uber crash near Phoenix last year did more than push the pause button on testing.
It also rattled consumers who someday will be asked to ride in self-driving vehicles.
Surveys taken after the Uber crash showed that drivers are reluctant to give up control to a computer.
I fully intend to spend my twilight years relaxing in relative safety while the car drives me around; I'm gonna be torqued if they take too long.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday February 05 2019, @10:50AM (1 child)
Hopefully they'll have big problems with left turns. On our Southern Border you’ll see vast numbers of vehicles driving through the desert and entering where you don’t have a very powerful fence or a wall. They get off the road and they drive out into the desert, and they come on, they make a left turn. Usually it’s a left, not a right. These coyotes and these human traffickers, they make a right turn before they get to the port of entry. They go as far as the wall is, or as far as the barricade is, and then they make a left. Welcome to the United States!!!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:55PM
People who can read don't have so much difficulty with left turns.
A concrete wall knocked over becomes a nice roadway.
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