> The people I hear complain about how awful everybody else is... they're […], or they're super entitled and drive aggressively. No, I simply expect others to

> The people I hear complain about how awful everybody else is... they're […], or they're super entitled and drive aggressively. No, I simply expect others to follow the same laws that I'm bound to and that I follow. The Golden Rule. And a lot of drivers on the road simply do not do that. > humans are remarkably adaptive and can convey intention through body language -- even through a "puppet body" like a motor vehicle. Humans can, by and large, adapt to "terrible" drivers -- swerving to avoid the aggro asshats I agree with you here, but this doesn't really help demonstrate that humans are not, on average, poor drivers. That some of us can compensate for the shortcomings of others is great, but the fact that we not only compensate for the shortcomings, but that we're able to suss it out of such fine data — seems only to be evidence that we have a need for it, because collectively our driving is bad. Perhaps you can teach an AI to read the "body language" of a car, but I imagine that such a thing would be remarkably subtle and considerably difficult. (On the whole, I don't think it really matters what the skill level of humans are. The AI must perform better, or else what's the point? Ideally, we should be able to prove that it's better — so as to sway public opinion, and I suspect that will be the hard part.)