Tesla released video of a car driving itself
I want to be optimistic, I really do.<p>Winter is here, however, I'm looking forward to roads covered with snow, slush, ice, and animals. I'm looking forward to winds in excess of 30mph driving snow across the highway, limiting visibility to a hundred feet or so. I'm looking forward to inexperienced folks driving on ice and snow and being a good 20mph below the rest of the traffic.<p>People can barely handle these roads (a two day snow storm last week put dozens of cars and semis in the ditch); I'm not sure how a Tesla will handle them. What will it look for when there are no lines on the road to be seen? How will it know the difference between slush, powdered snow, and plowed snow (which is only slightly less hard than a concrete barrier)?<p>I'm sure the answer is currently "don't allow automatic driving", but these kinds of conditions can reign over half the year in the mid-west; what value is a self driving car which <i>can't</i> half the time?