Would it kill a deer, a dog, or a cow that ran into your path?
Probably so, wreaking the car in the process.
How well does it detect things during very thick fog, or a driving rain storm? (slight pun intended)
And, and, and,,,,,,,,,,,, too many ands for me.

Macroscien said..
This is all nothing yet.I could not imagine how you could make electric car safe in any flooding situation.

We just need to wait to see people electrocuted inside and outside sinking cars.All good video of 4x4 Land cruiser diesel crossing river will be all gone with EV.

Actually, NOTHING is safe to use in a flood (except a helicopter if it does not land in it) !

You cannot have a safe vehicle IN a flood , that is a contradiction of basic safety and life support and negligent misuse of the RTA , ATSB will tell you IS HOW people come to be killed in a flood with a vehicle.

It would not be the self driving sensors that are a problem , its the actual construction of ANY vehicle for its' operational parameters.

Of your reference to 4wd vehicles as much (by implication), you are simply making the assumption as many dead drivers did (past tense) that it can perform the impossible !
Immensely brilliant technology designed sensors or not , operable in that environment called flooding does not make the vehicle including 50 tonne trucks capable of acceptable risk factor of changing weights and/or levels of water upon the vehicle !

The action is known as being either a fool or incompetent !
In a flood the risk factor is unknown quantity of unassessable environmental change, unlike crossing the river.

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nicephotog said..
Actually, NOTHING is safe to use in a flood (except a helicopter if it does not land in it) !

dunno mate - this is how we roll over here...

However, thee are geographical differences can be seen likely there, not so much as low undulating hills to collect water to run-off into channels except the point of topographic differences of ground level that mean if there were cyclone rain actually occurring that would be "when" not where it is dangerous (unless you do not actually know the depth measurements at locations).
On a plain for topography that goes for 100s of Km's then i could not say that one mattered but about the only place it does not have a problem, everywhere else you are just as likely dead to the action !!!