You persist in oversimplifying the problem....as if the only thing a driver ever does is cruise on the freeway.
Just this morning, in my driving to and from meetings, I encountered:
- Bridge Construction
- An accident on the interstate
- A funeral procession
- Parking at a large hospital complex with a myriad of specialty parking signs
- Parking at city offices, with specialty parking signs
- Interpreting signage in a parking garage
- Parking on a parking garage
- Yielding to jaywalking pedestrians
- Going around a stalled bus
- Going around parked delivery vehicles
- An intersection getting re-painted, with an army of idiots moving cones and flailing their arms to direct traffic
That’s just this morning!
None of the technology on the road today would address ANY of the situations I encountered in a span of four hours. You can deny it, you can oversimplify it...but you cannot explain to me how on earth any of the features in a car today could handle my very typical morning, driving around the city.
All of which can be dealt with without having you LIDAR knowing the exact number of millimeters between you and everything else. Half of them GPS already handles.
It’s a lot easier than you want it to be. Remember, drunk people can do this, just not very well. We don’t need to throw Deep Blue at a problem that can be accomplished by your average drunk.