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I was just thinking about this yesterday.
I was making a left turn and the water department had torn up half the street.
How would a self driven car handle that situation?
I had to drive on the wrong side to get around the construction.
I don't think you can replace a human thinking driver.
Actually it would handle the situation fairly well. Any self driving car would include video cameras to view the environment around it (360 degrees) the computer would visually pick up the torn up road and should stop.
Darpa I believe has a competition for self driving vehicles and put a large number in a town like environment some did rather well, others not so much. The technology is quite a few years away (10), and I doubt it will be introduced in the US firsr (to litigation happy)