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veb on Aug 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Eve...

How will this technology work in say, New Zealand? There's a lot of backroads, gravel roads and roads that don't appear in Google Maps.

I guess it would be interesting to see a Google Car, flying around on some back gravel road in New Zealand at 100km/hr without crashing. :) (Google rally driving anyone?)

plywoodtrees on Aug 15, 2012 | [–]

They can recognise road edges visually. Best-guess routing to off-map destinations. Cars can feed back trip data to improve the map database.

seanx on Aug 15, 2012 | [–]

Driving to ski fields will be fun:)

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