I dont think you can jump over that hurdle without actual software intelligence. If driver gets flashed by light, or something unexpected they rely on their pa

I dont think you can jump over that hurdle without actual software intelligence. If driver gets flashed by light, or something unexpected they rely on their past experiences, projection of near future to extrapolate how to drive despite lack of visual information. If you close your eyes you'd be able to drive for few seconds etc. If you seen a car disappear behind a building, you still know that it will come to the intersection and you will act like you can 'see' it. In my opinion the biggest problem is mimicking human driving. We are based on incomplete information with non-precise actions, and we balance it out by being highly adaptive. We extrapolate information from environment and based on past experience we predict future outcomes - seamlessly (though not always correctly). Everything computers are bad at doing currently.