well, many people driving around also don't reach the "human-level AI" too :) The computer beats me in chess, while it still would fail to find the proof i came

well, many people driving around also don't reach the "human-level AI" too :) The computer beats me in chess, while it still would fail to find the proof i came up with in my Math MS thesis. Is the driving more similar to chess or to finding a math proof? I think it is closer to the former. In a few years, giving the speed of sensor development and growth of computing power, the automated driving system can continuously capture and monitor 360 degree environment, at better resolution than human and across the specter of wavelengths (visual, IR, T/GHz) and react better/faster than human. Given that, i think human driven cars will be relegated in couple decades to the position of horse carriages - not allowed on highway for example where automated cars will be driving faster at tighter distances while being networked to each other in the vicinity. In some sense the driving may happen to be best suited for insect style distributed intelligence with relatively low intelligence of any given node which still possesses heightened senses. I wonder whether Google cars communicate to each other when meet at an intersection - either option has far reaching consequences and will define our near-term future. Plus at some point insurance industry will say their word which most probably will be based on the sole metric of $/mile loss, not AI IQ score.