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Same, and current tech is more or less doing this. Even my 2016 Toyota Rav4 has lane departure assist and dynamic cruise control. I still have to keep a hand on the wheel and pay attention to the road of course, but road trips are quite nice just with those 2 features.

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Now if only those systems would dodge debris on the road, like a truck tire or a piece of lumber.

Therein lies the long tail of challenges to be truly self driving, right?

If AI dodges the debris 99/100 the whole world will claim it as a failure because that 1 miss ended in someone's death - even if human drivers are only able to dodge 90/100.

The problem is 100% of economical, and not technical nature.

The car manufacturers are afraid of being made responsible for that deaths, even when you could prove a human would not have been smarter.

and also not suddenly dodge things that are not there

This happens to humans, too.

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