Originally Posted by sggoodri

That's why I think it will be easier for the inventors to demonstrate a good safety record on freeways than on ordinary streets. On freeways, a driver is not faulted for colliding with traffic that comes unexpectedly at them from the side, but on ordinary streets, with blind pedestrians, children, etc. this happens all the time. It will be hard to develop a system that has the capacity to perform as well as a human driver can, which I think will be the benchmark mandated by the public and their government, despite the much lower bar set by what many human drivers do. A robot cannot communicate or judge the intentions of people and animals like a human can.