Camera-Only Autopilot Requires Automatic High Beams Enabled
This is the only realistic way forward for attempting to do autonomous cars. Humans use visual range light to make their decisions on where to drive. If automated vehicles use anything else their decisions will be based off different information and likely lead to different outcomes.<p>This is especially highlighted in the parts of the USA that have a real winter with permanent snowcover. In these areas of the country sometimes the road surface is not visible for months at a time and the lanes that are formed have little to do with existing road markers. Instead humans sort of flock and form new emergent lanes and behaviors. And all the other humans (mostly) follow this visually in a low constrast (white snow) environment. Any system that uses absolute positioning or non-visual cues will not be able to follow the emergent lanes and cause danger.