Comment Re:Can a computer do this in the drive? (Score 1) 449
I'd imagine any autopilot that goes on sale will already have to avoid potholes, so it will have some sort of terrain management logic built into it.
Would it even know to avoid them on the 2nd pass?
Would you accept avoiding them on the first pass?
Exactly. That was a pretty poor example to hypothesize on the limitation of computers. I'd imagine if there was _any_ way around those bumps at all, the autopilot would find it in the blink of an eye. Furthermore, its chosen trajectory would most likely be more optimal than the one chosen by the human through trial and error. What the GP has described seems like a situation where an autopilot would _excel_ at.