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Waymo cannot handle poor weather at all, average human can.

Being able to perform better than humans in specific constrained problem space is how every automation system has been developed.

While self driving systems are impressive, they don’t drive with anywhere close to skills of the average driver




Waymo blog with video of them driving in poor weather https://waymo.com/blog/2019/08/waymo-and-weather


And nikola famously made a video of a truck using one which had no engine, we don’t take a company word for anything until we can verify.

This is not offered to public, they are actively expanding in only cities like LA , Miami or Phoenix now where weather is good through the year.

The tech for bad weather is nowhere close to ready for public. Average human on other hand is driving in bad weather every day


"Extreme Weather" tech "will be available to riders in the near future" https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymos-latest-robotaxi-is...


I'm sure the source of that CNET article came with a forward looking statements disclaimer.




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