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Honestly, I think these special cases for robust systems like Waymo's will be more a matter of custom configuration than something particularly novel. Yes, they'll run into scaling to every city immediately, but that happens already with software-only technology.
I think it's the combination of mandatory updates and zero tolerance for error that will be interesting. For example city X decides to change some traffic rule on date Y. Each autonomous vehicle will need to receive an update by date Y. What happens if a vehicle hasn't been updated soon enough? One solution is a mandatory update scheme. Every day a vehicle checks if it has received its daily update, if not the vehicl…
I'm curious about what corner cases exist that eg Google hasn't seen in millions of miles driving in a city. [I'm sure there are some, I just don't have a good imagination. Nor can I really fathom what a million miles of city driving is like]