WSJ: The Key to Autonomous Driving? An Impossibly Perfect Map

"...so-called “autonomous” vehicles are cheating...Rather than perceiving the world and deciding on the fly what to do next, these autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles are comparing their glimpses of the world with a map stored in memory."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-key-to-autonomous-driving-an-impossibly-perfect-map-1539259260