"The trust and safety of the communities where we operate is paramount to us. That’s why we’re voluntarily sharing our safety data.
The data to date indicates the Waymo Driver is already making roads safer in the places where we currently operate. Specifically, the data below demonstrates that the Waymo Driver is better than humans at avoiding crashes that result in injuries — both of any severity and specifically serious ones — as well as those that lead to airbag deployments."
They won’t be able to handle a MN winter.
Even the best gps isn’t accurate enough to know what lane you’re in (or on the shoulders,)
Remove lane markings (ie snow coverage) and bad visibility by both the LIDAR and daylight in any serious snowfall, and you have a recipe for cars going “weeee!” Into the ditch.
(Granted that first snow usually has a shocking number of cars going into the ditch anyway. Usually people learn their lesson, though.)
LA is the noob zone for self driving.