&quot;Lot of snow and can&#x27;t see the lane markers? Millions of people adapt every day to this during winter.&quot;<p>Having driven a corridor with a ton of snow quite a lot (western PA to washington DC), i&#x27;m going to strongly disagree with this.<p>People don&#x27;t &quot;adapt&quot;.  They just do it anyway because they have to.
The rate of minor and major fender benders in this kind of situation is <i>really</i> high, it&#x27;s just &quot;acceptable&quot;.<p>In truth, computers that understand the physics of what is happening to the car at a given point in time based on tons of sensor data are going to be <i>much</i> more effective drivers in snow and ice than people (because of even simple data it can use like &quot;this wheel has this much traction currently, so i need to correct this much&quot;).  People are really bad at figuring this out in their head and use horrible heuristics, often hitting other cars, guard rails, you name it.<p>You could also can get data about surrounding conditions (IE the ice the wheel will hit next or whatever) that people can&#x27;t because they are not close enough&#x2F;can&#x27;t process fast enough (IE not just what is going on with the car, but what is the state of the ice on the road 2 inches to the right or left of the car and would it be better for the car to steer in that direction to get more traction, etc)