I had a different take from reading the article. For one, a human driver would know they’ve been blinded by a laser (or something) and probably hit the breaks.

I had a different take from reading the article. For one, a human driver would know they’ve been blinded by a laser (or something) and probably hit the breaks. Thus, you could say the human driver is acutely aware that something exceptional occurred. In this case it wasn’t complete blindness but more like creating a blind spot in a certain spot in the field. However, and more importantly, the car doesn’t realize this blind spot is there or that anything exceptional has occurred and just keeps going.