>This means autonomous vehicles might make a mistake that is practically impossible for a human to make. Exactly—the mistakes are newsworthy because they're un

>This means autonomous vehicles might make a mistake that is practically impossible for a human to make. Exactly—the mistakes are newsworthy because they're unusual (both in specifics and the general novelty of "AI did X"), and not because (exaggerations aside) they're categorically any worse than the mistakes humans make. We are 100% guaranteed that humans aren't perfect drivers. A headline where we "discover" an AI is imperfect, therefore, doesn't let us conclude AI is worse than human drivers. On the other hand, autonomous systems can benefit from direct learning transfer through shared software, whereas humans cannot. In this respect AI is categorically superior to human drivers.