I think a good comparison here is TCAS [0] - installed on every airliner today, it's a system that could be summarized as 'you're going to hit another plane, do

I think a good comparison here is TCAS [0] - installed on every airliner today, it's a system that could be summarized as 'you're going to hit another plane, do XYZ NOW to avoid death'. It doesn't take the actions for you - just tells you what to do, even if the aircraft was operating under autopilot at the time. And yet autopilot on cars is expected to intervene in those cases and far more. (Of course, cars are often in those situations far more often, which is partly why the expectations are different) 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...