A few years ago, I went to Las Vegas for the first time and had a chance to ride in a self driving BMW 5 series. There was an engineer in the passenger seat, an

A few years ago, I went to Las Vegas for the first time and had a chance to ride in a self driving BMW 5 series. There was an engineer in the passenger seat, and a full time driver to take over. I forget the company, but it wasn't Tesla/Waymo/Uber. It was a pretty short ride, near the end an Escalade cut us off pretty egregiously, and the car dove out of the way while braking. I was still so glad we had a backup driver and engineer. I remember thinking how hard those situations will be for a computer to detect, predict, and act better than a human could. It's going to be a bumpy road getting to transportation utopia.