Comment by seshagiric

Is it a data problem? If you have data modeling every nook and corner of the world and every possible combination of human, objects, roads and traffic/ weather conditions, then the AI can learn. If not, it keeps getting confused, will enter private driveways or get bamboozled by traffic cones. Till then it will be an iterative process where the AV companies will keep learning from incidents like those described in the article.

On the other hand, I do think the biggest impact of AV will be in controlled environments like the mine dump trucks in the article or the relatively easier long-distance highway only trucks (AV trucks haul till city outskirts, human drivers supply into cities).