One of the many ways that drivers can be more predictable to other drivers is to disobey the laws regarding pedestrian rights of way and safety. Drivers not only disobey these laws all the time, but they expect you to do so too, lest they honk and use their car as a weapon to show you how angry they are that you let someone cross the street at an unmarked crosswalk.

Unfortunately for all those with fantastical fantasies about our autonomous car future, when they finally get here they’re going to be slow. And that’s a good thing, even if it means the utopia is still slow and congested.