Playing poker is trivial to automate, it’s essentially fully solved. Driving is often surprisingly social. I had many instances where I observed somebody pulli

Playing poker is trivial to automate, it’s essentially fully solved. Driving is often surprisingly social. I had many instances where I observed somebody pulling out of a driveway in front of me and something about how their head was turned or whatnot meant I subconsciously “knew” in a split second that they were about to go full speed without looking, so I had to slow down. Stop sign tie-breaking gets complicated. Pedestrian/bike rider eye contact is a thing. “Do I know that they know that I know what their intentions are?” And so on. It’s not as complex as fully solving human communication, but it seems like a huge challenge when mixing human and automated driving on the same roads. But I also don’t know if there were similar transition concerns when horse buggies were being replaced with cars and people had wrong expectations? Maybe we should paint these cars in bright orange and have flashing lights on all the time so that people learn to expect the different behaviour. (The huge Lidar rig on top of some self driving cars works to that purpose)