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Self-driving cars are a political problem, not a technical one. We have self-driving cars on Mars.

Autonomous drones, yeah, well... https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-d...



Perseverance "self drives" at 0.1mph on a nearly flat, static landscape with zero other threats or moving objects.

(Sure, it's a hostile landscape with regards to dust/temperature/radiation. And getting to Mars and landing safely is a fiendishly difficult task. But those aren't concerns of the self-driving system...)

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/how-perseverance-drives-on...

The problem space is truly not comparable to that of a drone that needs to navigate an actively hostile, evolving environment in three dimensions at two orders of magnitude greater speed.




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