Originally Posted by
tyrion
Correct. The mapping will focus on things that are relatively static. That's normally how mapping works.
Unfortunately for the developers/promoters/marketeers of self driving car schemes, driving safely on the road requires quickly and safely reacting at least as well as humans to those pesky unpredictable objects that are not static.
All the Radar and LIDAR and smart guys in Silicon Valley in existence may not be good enough to reliably and consistently drive a car without human control/oversight in the midst of such variables, except in tightly controlled locations and favorable weather environments.
The economics of such restricted use doesn't look favorable except for dreamers who don't care about reality, or speculators willing to lose billions of other people's dollars and have access to apparently bottomless purses of venture capital.