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How do current self-driving cars perform in snow or ice?

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Not well. As it turns out, I just wrote about this here, copied below for convenience: AVRIS, the USDOT's bold initiative to upgrade roads for self-driving cars The autonomous car era is upon us and accelerating at an astonishing rate. read more

And, in that, they perform about as well as humans if the weather/visibility conditions were one step worse. Falling snow, for the sensor system of a self-driving car, seems like a blizzard with short sight distances. Worse than what a human can piece together with their highly visual frontal cortex. read more

Auto insurance will be especially important for self-driving vehicles during the winter months. As advanced as technology gets, ice will still be iceā€”skids, spinouts and rear-end collisions will likely still occur on the roads. read more

Self-driving cars will be dependent on the ability of the sensors to determine the driving conditions. Anything that blinds the sensors, like a snow buildup, or confuses them, like water reflections, will have a detrimental affect on the signals sent to the computer. read more

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