@mastodonmigration@futurebird Another reason that robots can’t drive better than people is because the entire car-going infrastructure is designed with human drivers in mind, not automata. If an engineer were tasked with designing roads that were robot-friendly, the rules, markers, interface with pedestrians, and other standards would be very different (see: rail).
Because there is a heavy reliance on human cognition (and to a large extent, the complex rules of local culture) to navigate the infrastructure, it is very difficult to exceed the performance of a human driver. In many cases, human drivers must simulate what happens inside other human drivers’ minds as they negotiate the driving environment together; there is no way a machine can begin to do that today.
tl;dr: we made roads for human drivers, not robots. If we want robots to exceed humans, we must make roads made for robots.