AI seldom makes mistakes, people do
The trouble with self-driving cars isn't so much the AI in them, it's the unpredictablility of how stupid humans can be. While AI in general can predict how smart a human is, it has no reference for stupidity, because it is bottomless. It also does not account for willful malfeasance of other drivers, nor what is simply referred to as "insanity". Willful ignorance is at play as well, such as the driver who changes lanes without looking.
AI is good, but it can never come up to the level to anticipate the phenomenal ability of humans to find a way to make something work, and then completely bin the entirety of the established norms. How about we just teach people how to drive properly? It's not that hard, I do it all the time, and none of my trainees has ever had a collision that was their fault since, for over 20 years. A computer can mess things up, it is humans who excel at making it unfixeable.
A quote from 1982 TRON movie, in the laser bay:
[Dr. Walter] Well, computers are just machines, they can't think.
[Alan] But computers will be thinking soon...
[Dr. Walter] Oh won't that be grand? Computers and machines will start thinking and the people will STOP...
"If it is being done wrong, it is often being done by humans"
It's terrible to think that cognitive ability is considered an inconvenience rather than a virtue. This is what happenes when you devalue education.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
