> Urmson, when at Google, said that their testing taught them that humans cannot take over fast enough to deal with automation failures. This echoes what the av

> Urmson, when at Google, said that their testing taught them that humans cannot take over fast enough to deal with automation failures. This echoes what the aviation community has discovered over the years - when someone who isn't actively flying has to take over control, it takes seconds or tens of seconds before they have full situational awareness. I'm disappointed that this didn't become the prevailing wisdom for self-driving cars. With the current state of affairs, it seems there's a real risk of a few accidents causing this administration to pull the plug on self-driving altogether until we get a progressive administration again. Perhaps Urmson ought to have published this research so that others could use their methods and reproduce the results. It seems to me that user-study was the most important part of their research.