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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) by DannyB on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:38PM
Not just old white dudes like myself, but many people will like to relax, or engage in some productive, or at least entertaining activity while being driven by an autonomous vehicle that doesn't talk back.
Even children can ride without an adult. Especially if it is as safe as using an elevator in a tall building. (Caution: elevators are powerful and dangerous heavy machinery.)
Put the munchkins in the car and send it off to school. A car arrives after school to take them back home. No more busses. Or bus schedules. No more "but I missed the bus!" and "the dog ate my homework that smelled like beef jerky". Or no more: "I can't do homework on the bus because its too noisy with all that noise I'm helping to make!"
Upgrading road infrastructure with clearly marked painted lanes is much easier than older ideas of putting magnetic doodads in the road at regular intervals, or other more primitive notions of how a car might self navigate.
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