Comment by Gordonjcp

This is where I see the problem being with autonomous vehicles, too. They can only react to other vehicles, they can't predict them.

Humans are good at predicting.

You don't consciously know you've seen the guy a couple of cars in front checking his mirror and his shoulder but you're hanging back because you just know he's going to pull out any second. The guy that's wavering a bit in the middle lane is about to dash across to the far lane of the sliproad that's coming up, clipping the zebra stripes a bit, because he's concentrating on the sat nav not the road, but you just know - out of all the other drivers in your space at the moment - that red Ford is the one that's going to do something boneheaded.

Autonomous Vehicles won't be able to do that, probably not ever.