Yeah, and if IOT really takes off, it would be trivial for a car to use the city’s API to do a health check on the light many time faster than a human could. Bu

Yeah, and if IOT really takes off, it would be trivial for a car to use the city’s API to do a health check on the light many time faster than a human could. But now we’re introducing dependencies on API’s coded by God knows who to our heavily regulated, self-driving car. But yes, engineers probably have thought about this, but there’s an infinite amount of stuff that could happen which is impossible to control for. What about falling trees across the road? Dirt roads that’s way behind on maintanance that would require you to drive off road a bit? I’m not saying I believe AIs can’t handle this, but they would need room for improvisation to do it. When an entirely new situation occurs humans make decisions, argue in court, and then the ruling becomes precedent.