Scepticism greets Musk's latest claim on converting Tesla's electric cars into fully self-driving vehicles
Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to start converting the company’s electric cars into fully self-driving vehicles next year as part of a plan to create a network of robotic taxis to compete against Uber and other ride-hailing services.
Heavy snow, rain, fog and sandstorms can obstruct the view of cameras. Light beams sent out by laser sensors can bounce off snowflakes and think they are obstacles. Radar can see through the weather, but it doesn’t show the shape of an object needed for computers to figure out what it is. Software also is being developed so vehicles can differentiate between real obstacles and snowflakes, rain, fog, and other conditions.
In some limited areas that have been mapped in three dimensions, the cars can function in light snow and rain.Across the globe, roadway marking lines are different, or they may not even exist. Lane lines aren’t standardised, so vehicles have to learn how to drive differently in each city. Sometimes there aren’t any curbs to help vehicles judge lane width.
“Even if the car might eventually figure something out, it’s shared space, and it’s socially unacceptable” to block traffic, Rander said. Waymo CEO John Krafcik said in an interview last year that his company’s vehicles are still encountering occasional problems at intersections.
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