Google's self-driving car crash is a positive sign

Being from India, Let me say that it will take huge advancements in AI before self-driving cars could drive on the streets here!<p>These advances would need to include :-<p>-Being able to decide what can be considered a road and what cannot.<p>-Knowledge of Human psychology which additionally needs to cover areas of suicide , homicide, etc.<p>-Knowledge of Animal psychology<p>-Understanding of different cultural norms both for humans and animals (I have found that the cows in Bangalore are much less likely to yield way than the cows in Kerala)

&gt; A lot of people I talk to imagine that the tech problems have all been solved and all that’s left is getting legal and public acceptance. There is great progress being made, but nobody should expect these cars to be perfect today. That’s why they run with safety drivers, and did even before the law demanded it. This time the safety driver also decided the bus would yield and so let the car try its merge. But expect more of this as time goes forward.<p>I think most people who say the issues are social and legal don&#x27;t think the technical problems are solved, they just think that we are inexorably progressing towards solving them at a more rapid rate than the social and legal problems.

1) i thought this meant stock crash, but it refers to the bus &#x2F; automated SUV crash from 2&#x2F;29&#x2F;2016<p>2) Has anyone made an animated depiction of the crash, I&#x27;m curious if I have in my head the right idea about what actually happened

The article mentions that the robocar can theoretically see other drivers intent: &lt;i&gt;It’s worth noting that sometimes humans solve this problem by making eye contact, to know if the other car has seen you. Turns out that robots can do that as well, because the human eye flashes brightly in the red and infrared when looking directly at you — the “red eye” effect of small flash cameras.&lt;&#x2F;i&gt; But what about the other way? Perhaps the bus driver couldn&#x27;t see Goog&#x27;s flashing eyes, and assumed therefore it wouldn&#x27;t attempt to merge back in.

I&#x27;m wondering why there were enough sandbags around a storm drain to warrant the vehicle moving back into the left lane and not any indication before hand. The autonomous vehicle would know when a lane is blocked because of cones, right?

I&#x27;m glad that nobody was hurt. It takes some of the emotion about getting to the fixes.