But that's not always reality, especially around construction zones. Humans don't always get it right. And things sometimes take out the temporary markings ev

But that's not always reality, especially around construction zones. Humans don't always get it right. And things sometimes take out the temporary markings even if it was done correctly. I've had to evade one of those big barrel cones rolling across the freeway. I suspect it fell off a truck rather than blew from road work, but there's no way to know. And would an AI car know that a barrel in front of it is a windblown hazard rather than an actual indication of a closed lane? And I've clobbered one of the ordinary cones when a guy was confused by the construction zone and went straight from the left turn lane and I had to evade. Didn't see where it went and didn't think of trying to put it back. Again, is the AI going to be able to realize that smacking the cone was the right thing to do? (The cone was blocking off road in preparation for what was ahead, I didn't actually go into roadwork.) Humans are far better than AIs at balancing things when faced with something having gone wrong. AI--we put in a driverless bus on a short loop. It was in an accident within hours--any human driver would have understood to get out of the way of the truck or at least lay on the horn if that wasn't possible. The bus just sat there and let itself be hit by the backing truck. If everything is as it should be they probably already are better drivers than humans. It's just they aren't as good when confronted with things that are wrong.