I don't think anybody has demonstrated convincingly that a self-driving car would specifically need AGI to acheive what really matters: statistically better res

I don't think anybody has demonstrated convincingly that a self-driving car would specifically need AGI to acheive what really matters: statistically better results on a wide range of metrics. I don't expect SDCs to solve trolley problems (or human drivers to solve them either) or deal with truly exceptional situations. To me that's just setting up an unnecessarily high bar.