Computer-vision-based self-driving is a mistake. Self-driving cars should drive on their own roads with no non-self-driving vehicles. Other vehicles, traffic li

Computer-vision-based self-driving is a mistake. Self-driving cars should drive on their own roads with no non-self-driving vehicles. Other vehicles, traffic lights, road hazards, route changes, etc should be signals that are directly sent to the vehicles rather than the vehicles relying on seeing and identifying cars and traffic lights and road signs. We know how to make computers navigate maps perfectly. We don't know how to make computers see perfectly. The other uncontrollable humans on the map just make it worse. Yes this'll not work in existing cities. That's fine. That's the point. An inscrutable black box "ML model" that can be fooled by things that humans aren't fooled by should not be in a situation where it can harm humans. I as a pedestrian did not consent to being in danger of being run over by an algorithm that nobody understands and can only tweak. Build new cities that are self-driving first or even self-driving only, where signaling is set up as I wrote in the first paragraph so that a car reliably knows where to drive and how to not drive over people. Take the opportunity to fix the other problems that old cities have like thin roads and not enough walking paths.