" Obviously more information is needed, but I thought the entire point of having a driver behind the wheel is to manually intervene to prevent this very situati

" Obviously more information is needed, but I thought the entire point of having a driver behind the wheel is to manually intervene to prevent this very situation?" I think it's time to point out the obvious, and require that autonomous cars apply the brakes first, and THEN require driver intervention. And that they be a whole lot quicker to err on the side of braking. Cameras getting fuzzy ? Slow down. Your ML algorithms are showing lower confidence measures for how they classify nearby objects and trajectories ? Slow down. nearby vehicles slowing down and you don't know why? Slow down. This is inexcusable.