It's more that if an autonomous car with no human stalls, due to a traffic light that's stopped working, or an oddly shaped plastic bag in the road, it's stuck, and would cause a traffic jam. Not sure how to resolve such a scenario, can't rely on someone remotely taking control, as mobile data doesn't have 100% coverage, so a human who is allowed access to the car would somehow need to get thorough the traffic jam to move the vehicle on. Can't think of an efficient way to resolve this situation.
I mean the other day on my daily commute there were two cars right in the middle of a freeway, one attempting to jump start the other and they were at it for a while. This is not shockingly new ground.
If google actually starts selling a self-driving car and doesn't give any information about whether it can deal with a policeman-controlled intersection, then you can be concerned. Until then, implying their self-driving car programs haven't considered the basic problems that any uninformed commenter on the internet can think up is not incredibly helpful.
I can guarantee you that on a one to one driving skills shootout between you and the software you will loose 98% of the time.
Forget it, driver-less s cars will be the norm in the future. You won't be able to afford the insurance associated with a meat-driven car.
If we're crediting the car with being able to handle merging into a crowded multi-lane highway and dealing with idiot human drivers who don't indicate or hold lane position very well, it seems a bit odd to arbitrarily presume that it won't be able to identify non-hazards like said tumbleweed.
Does it drive better than me driving while being supervised continuously by a computer? I still make the important decisions, and my mistakes are pointed out by the computer.
The competition for self driving cars are not humans, but humans being adviced by driver assistance programmes
