Why Self Driving Vehicles Will Not Hit Full Level 5 Autonomy For Many Years
Unless you live under a rock, you have heard of Self Driving Autonomous Vehicles (Uber, Waymo, GM Cruise…) and Governments around the world are scrambling to:
- Modify existing legislation to allow self driving vehicles
- Be the first in their region to allow self driving cars, because of the amount of R&D money / jobs involved
- Consider new legislation to curb some the top level autonomy (level 5), where the vehicle is 100% responsible for the driving and it does not even offer a steering wheel or break peddle
Those are all important things to do, but Level 5 full autonomy is much further away than the public and many pendants think. Many people have already figured out that the algorithms used to drive on:
- Snow covered roads
- Poorly painted roads
- Temporary construction zones