The conditions I listed are an outstanding issue for driverless cars e . g . snow drivingcarssnow Just as it can for a human , an overabundance of white flurries can inhibit a driverless car ' s visibility . Autonomous cars use various types of sensors to read roads including radar , cameras , and lidar , which uses light to calculate surroundings . As Fortune previously reported , snow can cover up radar sensors and cameras , and render lidar technology useless . Laws still require a human behind a wheel to take control because of certain situations . <| sep |> I don ' t see why this is relevant , maybe I was a bit too adamant in how I said things which makes me seem pretentious . If that ' s the case then I ' m sorry , this should be a conversation , not me just deciding on facts . I studied film and animation in college and focused mostly on story telling . While I don ' t work specifically as a writer today , I am involved in creative decisions such as this . However really this is not what should convince you about whether I ' m right or not it merely gives me an expanded tool box to work with while making up my argument . Which I apparently didn ' t utilize well here since I feel like my point didn ' t come across .