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Self-driving cars cannot cope with snow (yet)
Autonomous cars do not only count on their sensors but they also depend on detailed 3D maps showing road marks and traffic signs that are hidden under the snow and invisible to the human eye /Agefotostock
It never snows in Silicon Valley and this worries the engineers of Waymo and Uber among others, pioneers of autonomous vehicles: they do not have enough experience of how a self-driving car responds to whirling snowflakes. It sees it as hard objects you have to brake for. Light detection and ranging The sensors of those
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