[makingstuffs]

> The big draw of Teslas is the autopilot/driving assist features, but they rely on clear lane markings and predictable behavior. However, that country's traffic culture is more like: no lanes, people (especially two-wheelers and "autos") driving on the wrong side (in fact they come at you in all directions), pedestrians everywhere, cows, random parked vehicles, people cutting across constantly (including beggars and street sellers). No one obeys the traffic rules, it's complete and utter chaos. I'd imagine even the best AI systems would struggle to deal with this chaos.

This made me chuckle as it is 100% on the money. Whenever my wife and I come here we rent a car and she is just completely amazed that I calmly navigate the plethora of hazards that make up the Indian roads. Literally, nothing is predictable about traffic here. Monkeys, cows, dogs, cats, people selling stuff, people asking for stuff, tractors on motorways, horse drawn carts on motorways, tuk tuks, scootys which have been modded to have three wheels, trucks that are so overloaded they take two lanes, small vans which have been vertically lengthened to make them into some weird ass quasi truck, bicycles, traffic lights tha don’t work, traffic lights that do work but are facing the wrong way, traffic lights which work but are covered in so much dust you couldn’t even see their current state and this isn’t even half of what you have to regularly navigate. I think any self driving car would just burn out its processor within seconds of leaving the showroom floor.