> Humans routinely over-drive their vehicles capability to safely stop for an obstacle in front or adjacent to their path of travel.

Hence, the opportunity for an automated system that does not do that to be much safer, by relying on reaction times rather than strong AI.

Where a human driver would use subtle cues to anticipate a slowdown of the preceding vehicle before a turn, an automated system can get by by simply slamming the brakes in less than one millisecond when it detects braking from the other vehicle.