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You do realize there are countries that have a significant chance of snow for 4+ months per year, right?

And that there are many places with stop signs that are almost completely obscured by foliage, or simply by the angle of roads on the crossroads.

Not everything is California. And not every city has a grid.

When autonomous cars can survive in a place like Rome or Paris[1], or even downtown Manhattan. Then we can talk about fully replacing humans.

[1] Rome and Paris are notorious for people having special city cars because they get banged up so much in the course of normal life

Here's an example of traffic in a modern European city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJ-VokP3EQ

And another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lay8aZlsbB0

How long until autonomous cars can do that? Hell, I'd shit my pants trying to do that.

PS: in the real world there are also many roads that flat out don't have lanes drawn on them.



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