The problem with self-driving cars isn’t safety

I recall that when companies like Google began testing self-driving cars around a decade ago, the immediate worry of nearly everyone was safety. Which makes sense — a glitch in a Windows app is inconvenient, a glitch with an AI driver could be fatal. And even when AI is working perfectly, driving is a complex task. It requires maximal situational awareness, including a sense of what pedestrians and other drivers are about to do. Us humans often fail at predicting each other, forget about a machine.