…instead, AI is off on this ridiculous investor-driven “rEpLAcE hOoMAnS GAI BABEEEE” hype bender, in which self-driving cars have to be like human drivers except more magicaler.
What that means in practice is that consistency — the •one thing• that machines really have on humans in this space! — goes out the window. Self-driving cars are full of weird failure modes and bizarre quirks. They’re drunk and texting all the time, except they behave in ways that are even less predictable than humans.