<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div>I saw some BMWs and Mercedes that already ship with anti skip software... So I think it is safer to have the car drive than the humans... Especially on ice.</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch</div></div> <br>spike <spike66@att.net> wrote:<br><br>I am rethinking self-driving cars after spending the holidays in Spokane<br>Washington. It has been snowing a lot up here. It is an order of magnitude<br>more difficult to drive in snowy and icy conditions. So it makes sense to<br>me why self-drivers have been legalized in states where it doesn't snow<br>much. I don't really think the technology is ready for winter driving in<br>the rest of the world.<br><br>On the other hand, it might be just the opposite: snow and ice impairs<br>humans more than it does software. If that is the case, then perhaps the<br>safety of a self-driver is comparable to a human on a clean dry road, but a<br>factor of 3 safer in icy conditions.<br><br>spike<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></body>