This is why Google is training their cars now in the real world to handle all of these kinds of things. Here's a Ted Talk [0] from 2015 where the head of their

This is why Google is training their cars now in the real world to handle all of these kinds of things. Here's a Ted Talk [0] from 2015 where the head of their self driving unit makes the case for full autonomy vs. semi-autonomous because the semi-autonomous is good enough where people trust it, but not good enough to be trusted. Kind of like what happened where the Tesla driver went underneath the truck that wasn't properly detected. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=tiwVMrTLUWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=tiwVMrTLUWg edit: Around the 8min mark you can see some interesting interactions of the lidar and the world.