Re: motovation
The catch being that there isn't a whole lot of potential chaos factors in space. Same with aviation. Once aloft, airplanes don't have so many chaos factors to consider: turbulence and rogue aircraft, maybe, but not much else. Once you get to sea/ground level, the chaos factors increase considerably: terrestrial and aquatic life, unpredictable motions and waves (thus why we have rogue waves), not to mention the human factor. Put it this way: navigating at sea involves a certain amount of necessary complexity to account for uncertainties at sea such as currents and drift.
PS. And yes, intuition (or rather, subconscious or reflexive knowledge) does play a factor in various mental functions regarding detection and avoidance. These kinds of things we can't teach to AIs because we don't ourselves know how we do it.