I dream of the day I can sit on my phone in the traffic and my car will do most of the work (jokes, Uber does that already for me), because in the early hours of the morning, I am not the best person to have behind the wheel (I hold on to sleep-mode for as long as possible), so I hope these guys at Hyundai keep practicing for me.

Hyundai just had its Future Automobile Technology Competition in South Korea. They put 12 cars together, in a little competition, “to see which autonomous tech comes out on top”.

Day one went alright, but only four of the teams made it to the final round, on day two.

Sadly, day two saw rain, and the self-driving cars literally had a moment. It can be likened to what happens to human drivers in Cape Town when it rains. Chaos.

This [rain] and other environmental anomalies – snow, fog, smoke, sand, locusts – continue to be an issue for self-driving cars.

It’s not that the road is slippery, but rather the “visual systems” that causes the problem.

Those cameras and LIDAR arrays are dependent on a clear view, and with the angle of the car shifting and the direction of the sun, the sensors fail to pick up everything from street signs to lane markings and even pedestrians.

You can watch the comparison video of dry versus wet conditions HERE.

Both wet and dry still have a lot of kinks to sort out. Good luck to them.

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