Comment by throwaway2037
3 days ago
> what if it isn't a perfectly dry and sunny California day
What a silly comment. Waymo is operating in San Francisco, Houston, and Orlando. All of those get lots of rain. Specifically, SF gets lots of "small rain" and Houston and Orlando are more likely to get short bursts of heavy rain.
The irony of people who are against self-driving cars for safety reasons: They are already much safer than regular drivers -- accidents and deaths per millions of kilometers driven. Also, the software is continuously improving. Are regular drivers also continuously improving at the same rate? If anything, they probably get modestly better from 20s into middle age (40s/50s), then begin to decline with age.
Well, they've clearly done a good job of learning how to deal with the weather in those places, so it's unfortunate that Florida never has any severe weather that can cause flooding for them to have learned from before rolling out to Atlanta