Actually, machine learning can do that. Back in 1995, a team at Carnegie Mellon used a neural network in a car: "ALVINN is a forward-looking, vision based dri

Actually, machine learning can do that. Back in 1995, a team at Carnegie Mellon used a neural network in a car: "ALVINN is a forward-looking, vision based driving system that uses a neural network to learn the mapping between road images and appropriate vehicle turn radius. By watching a person drive for about 5 minutes, it can learn the relevant features required for driving[3]. It has successfully driven our testbed vehicles on unlined paved paths, jeep trails, lined city streets and interstate highways." http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/tjochem/www/nhaa/navlab5_details.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/tjochem/www/nhaa/navlab5_de...