A closer look
The real challenge of self-driving cars isn't navigating traffic, it is figuring out how to pull over without causing a public riot. In cities like San Francisco, Waymo and other autonomous shuttles use deep-learning curb management systems to constantly calculate the least annoying place to drop off humans. They essentially play a hyper-aggressive game of musical chairs with Uber drivers and Amazon vans, using lidar to violently claim 15 feet of open sidewalk before a human driver can steal it.
