Several different comments in this sub-thread call this a "mistake". Machines don't make mistakes. If a crane collapses, it didn't make a mistake. If a robot

Several different comments in this sub-thread call this a "mistake". Machines don't make mistakes. If a crane collapses, it didn't make a mistake. If a robot car drives into oncoming traffic, it's not a mistake, it's an engineering failure, a bad design. This wasn't a fuckup in a prototype, this was a life-critical fuckup 15-20 years into the project which is still confined to a small number of well-mapped cities with good weather. So my point stands, major fuckups decades into a project when conditions are fairly close to ideal are not acceptable and are indicative of a failed project. As an aside, it's also not the case that "better than human" is all that matters. The kind of fuckup also matters because people vote, and votes change regulations. If people don't like it, it won't be legal. Driving into oncoming traffic in broad daylight with 20 years of engineering progress is not something people are going to say "oh okay well sometimes my grandma does that too" to. You guys are wearing rose-tinted glasses.