Having been brought up and learned to drive (on two wheels and four) in
the hills of Northern England before road gritting became common, I also
cannot see how wheeled self driving vehicles could cope with Alaska, or
many other places with ice or mud. But, I do not think a lot of younger
drivers could currently cope either without training on a skidpan and
experience. The perfect is always the enemy of the good in engineering,
and I would expect to welcome self-drive cars on good roads if/when I
become incapable of normal driving. Early cameras were primitive by
modern standards, but even static B&W portraits with long exposures were
a welcome improvement on nothing (unless you could afford a portrait
artist).
Brian
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