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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
All well and good if you drive in a city where everything is perfect.
If you are driving at night in the bush and a roo jumps in front of you, the computer may detect it and put on the brakes, but if the simple laws of physics detemine that the braking force via the tyre to road interface wont stop you in time, you are custard. Its all well and good until it doesnt work.
If you want a self driving car, its simple, get a taxi, bus or train.
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It's not designed for working in the City, it's designed for detecting and reducing the risk of impacts from "wild" objects on country roads at night.
As for traction...the computers on cars these days are more capable than the drivers ever are at understanding the laws of physics and assessing the road conditions and acting accordingly. Northern European winters can be pretty foul weather-wise, likewise many parts of the US, and given the litigious nature of their society for it to be sold there it'd have to be fairly robust.
The proof is in the pudding of course...