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Regarding snow and ice - the big difference most people are missing is that these are not cars that are sold and are sitting in your driveway or a car park in the snow. All the companies mentioned here; Waymo, Zoox, Uber are building autonomous car services. Just like you don’t clean the bus and train before you ride it you will not be cleaning the sensors on these cars. They will be stored in a hub where they will be cleaned/serviced waiting to be called on-demand arriving to you clean and ready to go.

Regarding AI not being able to make decisions in the edge case, I would much rather trust a computer that has access to millions of previous scenarios and can calculate the most appropriate response based on the outcomes of those past scenarios than a distracted 16-year old with a bunch a friends in the car making the same decision for the first time after potentially never seeing a similar scenario before, or a drunk driver making that decision intoxicated, or ...

There are 1.25 MILLION deaths due to cars every year. The goal of autonomous cars and AI is not to go to zero deaths but to very significantly reduce those numbers. The people that say the an autonomous AI car might have a crash are missing the point.