Re: Optimistic
"Tesla is Big-Brothering their cars and can conduct a Delphi Poll on what a good driver does in very, very many circumstances."
What it can't do is record why the driver did it if the Tesla system didn't register the problem. e.g. the driver recognises from the behaviour of a pedestrian that they're about to side-step off the curb and breaks in anticipation. The system will record the pre-emptive breaking followed by the entry of the pedestrian onto the roadway but the actual movement of the pedestrian will only be recorded as a random action at the time it actually happened. The driver, being a sentient being like the pedestrian, can see that the pedestrian is unsteady, is being confronted by another aggressive pedestrian or whatever and has sufficient understanding to realise what they, the driver, would do if they were in that situation.
The critical word in the previous sentence is "understanding". That's the difference between man and machine.
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