Knightshade
Well-Known Member
Bolding added by me. Right now the circumstances where L4 can be done is fairly limited. Waymo is doing some L4 in Arizona. I doubt those cars are out on the road during monsoon season.
I'm not aware of there BEING a monsoon season in Chandler AZ.
But they're also doing L4 in California...they've been testing there (and having accidents there!) for many years.
Right now they're DEPLOYED in San Francisco, to the public, without a human driver, for taxi rides (though limited hours... at night in fact)
I read that the Waymo cars within their geofenced network in good weather are driving without drivers. We'll see what happens when one of those vehicles get into an accident. The company that developed the equipment are going to get sued because there is no human driver to sue.
They've already been in dozens of accidents, as they've been operating for many years that way
Google's Self-Driving Car Caused Its First Crash
Google's self-driving car appears to have caused its first crash on February 14, when it changed lanes and put itself in the path of an oncoming bus.
www.wired.com
That's a story from -2016- about Waymos first at-fault car accident while doing autonomous driving.
I'd strongly advise you to do a significant amount more research than you appear to have done on this topic before commenting further.