- Humans have awful reaction times, so the "AI" cars should fare 10-100x better. "split-second" is laughably slow to a computer.
- How seldom these scenarios come up for human drivers is a huge disadvantage for them. For self driving, it doesn't matter, the cars' reactions can be simulated in arbitrary scenarios as many times as needed, so even the rarest of scenarios can be ensured to be handled properly.
- There's nothing special about the decision to swerve vs to say, brake. I'd expect self driving cars to not need to swerve nearly as often because the need to swerve probably only ever exists due to excessive speed and/or poor following distance to the vehicle ahead.
> It's happened to me about 2-3 times and I've always made the "(assumedly) correct" split second swerve decision.
Easy question: Did you make that decision with full awareness that you would not end up in a collision path with another vehicle by swerving? Oops.
Even if you did, how many drivers do you think would "instinctively" swerve into another lane and get hit by an oncoming vehicle because they do not maintain constant situational awareness around their vehicle? The majority, at least.
- How seldom these scenarios come up for human drivers is a huge disadvantage for them. For self driving, it doesn't matter, the cars' reactions can be simulated in arbitrary scenarios as many times as needed, so even the rarest of scenarios can be ensured to be handled properly.
- There's nothing special about the decision to swerve vs to say, brake. I'd expect self driving cars to not need to swerve nearly as often because the need to swerve probably only ever exists due to excessive speed and/or poor following distance to the vehicle ahead.
> It's happened to me about 2-3 times and I've always made the "(assumedly) correct" split second swerve decision.
Easy question: Did you make that decision with full awareness that you would not end up in a collision path with another vehicle by swerving? Oops.
Even if you did, how many drivers do you think would "instinctively" swerve into another lane and get hit by an oncoming vehicle because they do not maintain constant situational awareness around their vehicle? The majority, at least.