If the technology were as undeterministic as this post makes it seem to be, there should not be any self driving car allowed even under the best conditions. I

If the technology were as undeterministic as this post makes it seem to be, there should not be any self driving car allowed even under the best conditions. I fully agree that an AI can be fooled, but that is high level logic (path planing), the system should be designed to have a fallback that does emergency braking if all else fails. There simply is a point where the high-level AI does not matter any more. And that is if I (the car) am moving at 45 mph towards an obstacle that is in the middle of the road less than 2 meters from my projected path. This does not mean that a full brake is required but the speed definitely needs to be reduced to account for the uncertainty, and once it is determined that it is physically impossible to miss the obstacle the system must do a full stop to reduce the impact velocity as much as possible. It's fine, if the LIDAR data is plugged into a machine learning algorithm, and you will probably get less than the 10-20 Hz the scanner can produce, but at the same time it is probably also used by a much simpler obstacle tracking algorithm that can run at near real-time speeds.