Ah, so self driving cars will be a thing as soon as we completely duplicate the road network. That sounds pretty realistic actually.
I now understand it can handle the terrain, thanks for the explanation that is pretty neat they could do it thirty years ago, just curious when I tell it to go to a house in the middle of a 20 acre property with multiple private roads, and I use the term road lightly, if it is actively going to search for a path or if it will have to have manual intervention.
I have seen google cars handle well mapped streets, just curious.