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cryptoegorophytoday at 12:42 AM1 replyview on HN

How is this only being solved now? Isn’t it a very common thing that happens on roads or what am I missing? At least few times a year I have to go around major puddles, Waymo just speed boats through them? I doubt to believe.


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gerdesjtoday at 12:50 AM

Around 40 years ago, I was cycling around Andover (Hants, UK). Me and a mate were whizzing around near a small artificial lake. I decided to run into what I thought was shallow water and it wasn't. With hindsight that was a really daft failure of perception but you live and learn.

Forty years later touch wood I have not yet broken myself or a car ...