That's not really a question that proves anything. There could be a number of reasons for why it's not universal that have nothing to do with how effectively it can self-drive.
Because a self driving car can't handle snowy roads. Because a self driving car can't handle merging onto the BQE. No company could even dream of selling a vehicle marketed as completely autonomous because when people actually tried to exercise that capability they would end up killing themselves and a bunch of other people.
Why would a completely autonomous vehicle try to operate when it didn’t have enough information to do so safely? If there is bird shit on the camera it’s going to ask you to clean it. It’s not going to say, “I can’t see but I’ll try to drive anyway.”
It can easily handle that, it even has the transmission downshift so it doesn’t overheat the brakes when heading down from a mountain pass.
If it's that great then how is it that every car on the market isn't self driving?
That's not really a question that proves anything. There could be a number of reasons for why it's not universal that have nothing to do with how effectively it can self-drive.
Here's my answer:
Because a self driving car can't handle snowy roads. Because a self driving car can't handle merging onto the BQE. No company could even dream of selling a vehicle marketed as completely autonomous because when people actually tried to exercise that capability they would end up killing themselves and a bunch of other people.
Why would a completely autonomous vehicle try to operate when it didn’t have enough information to do so safely? If there is bird shit on the camera it’s going to ask you to clean it. It’s not going to say, “I can’t see but I’ll try to drive anyway.”
Because no matter how much you clean the lens has no effect on its ability to drive on snowy roads, which is to say that it can't.
"Autonomous" cars can't do everything that an average human being can do, end of story.
That’s going to be a problem on a freeway.