Personally I view the problem here not as a failure of object recognition or what would be considered a visual system, but of abstract reasoning (or lack thereo

Personally I view the problem here not as a failure of object recognition or what would be considered a visual system, but of abstract reasoning (or lack thereof, of course) Aritical neural networks are pretty good at object recognition, among hundreds of other things, and even better than humans at some of them. They are, however, generally pretty bad at abstract reasoning, critical thinking, 'understanding' concepts in-depth, and so on, and I think that's a more constructive way to phrase the problem we see in this video. When a problem is fully redicible to a simple vision problem, modern neural networks are a great choice, but being a good driver involves much more than just the visual cortex.