I'm honestly not. I've seen that video, and given my experience of vision models, am actually concerned that object permanance is not being focused on.

> There clearly is room for improvement, and some level of concern is warranted, but it isn't as much of a big deal as it seems, because surely at the higher level objects are remembered.

I would be very surprised if this were true.

> To draw an analogy with human cognition, humans also aren't consciously aware of all the objects in their field of view all the time, but that doesn't mean they forget their existence.

This is exactly object permanence, in that babies start looking in the right direction for objects that disappear. I assume that Waymo at least have some kind of model for this, but am not convinced that it's particularly effective.

Personally, I think that self-driving will require a limited theory of mind model, and we are nowhere near that.