Autonomous cars could be stopped by leaves, Law Commission warns

[Mike Ruff, GW editor]

Driverless cars may come to a standstill and cause gridlock in cities when confronted with leaves, seagulls or the “wrong sort of snow”, the Law Commi
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[Peter Miles]

How many people do you see on a snowy morning that barely clear their windscreen properly (which is dangerous enough!) but then think are they going to clear all the cameras/sensors that an autonomous car relies on? Or leave that blow up and in wet weather particularly stick over a sensor? Who knows what the car will do then. It might just stop or it might carry on “blind”. I can only see this all being a total disaster.

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