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Given that is is limited to Japan, I wonder if the Level 3 driving will be limited to highways and major cities that have been 3D mapped by Honda in advance. Self-driving without the kind of data TSLA has is doable if the solution is less generalized.

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I've often wondered why we haven't been spending some effort developing optimized test areas which integrate helpful elements for self driving cars into the roads. Obviously, we wouldn't want a car that couldn't go everywhere, but it seems like at a national level, we could implement something into the highway system that would make it easy for interstate self driving vehicles.

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