The edge cases are a show stopper: You are talking about something like "driver assist" or upgraded cruise control. Thing is, still need a human right there.

The edge cases are a show stopper: You are talking about something like "driver assist" or upgraded cruise control. Thing is, still need a human right there. Much of the dream of self-driving is for no human driver there, for taxi cabs, school buses, 18 wheel trucks, local deliveries from pizza or Chinese carryout, USPS, UPS, or FedEx, etc. For that, for current technology, for current traffic, on current roads, there's no hope at all because the edge cases are way too common in practice (can't put up with mean time to destroying an 18 wheel truck of six months -- 5 million miles is more like it) and require full, wide awake, sober, mature human intelligence with full ability at reading, talking, understanding, natural language understanding, hand signals, flag signals, tough to read road signs, etc. Edge cases.