Are you suggesting that AI driving is impossible? What's so special about a human brain "reasoning" while driving that AI can't do it?
Seems like it'll be impossible for Tesla. It's less clear for others though, as some of them (Mercedes?) seem to be taking a more responsible development approach.
And taking legal liability in very narrow (essentially useless) circumstances is exactly why it’s a marketing thing. It’s to make it seem like they have an advanced system when there is no evidence of them having it or having any realistic path forward.
After reading that, it's hard to tell what Mercedes is doing. :/
Hopefully it's not just marketing bullshit, but I guess we'll all only find out over time.
If they're taking a measured approach, and it's working, then it seems like they've either bought in the expertise or managed to develop it. :)
Cost effective, I don't know what this means in this context. Development costs, rider costs? I don't see why this matters.
Safety is easy to measure. Just measure crash rates.
If your concern is can we engineer a self-driving car with acceptable safety performance, there is only one way to figure that out and it's to try to build one. You're not going to somehow prove it out on paper before trying it.