I think the takeaway should be that autopilot cannot be generalized. You can't say it's better or worse under all situations than an average driver. Sure there

I think the takeaway should be that autopilot cannot be generalized. You can't say it's better or worse under all situations than an average driver. Sure there are situations that it's clearly better or worse than an average driver like driving on a pretty straight freeway for hours long or driving on a twisty road without clear lane markings. The problem arises with ambiguous situations like phantom breaking. Is it phantom breaking because the tree overhangs are too close to the surface of the road, the sun is shinning directly into one of the cameras or is there smudge on the camera lens? For this category of problems we're likely to see both improvements and further regressions. The ambiguity will bifurcate into clearly worse and clearly better than average human driver categories. This is the part we need patience for the technology to improve. The clearly worse than human driver category may be an intractable set of problems and that's what we should judge viability of self-driving technology base off of.