[euyyn]

But you, as a human, don't need to know what happened before, to be able and drive through those conditions. You just need the immediately-available information, which is what OP defined as "no need for context" vs speech recognition.

[qyv]

How does a self driving car differentiate between a police officer flagging you down and a carjacker? Humans can make this judgement because we have a context for each of those situations based on our understanding of how the world works outside of just operating a vehicle safely.

[taneq]

To be fair, humans can't do this either, or there wouldn't be such a thing as carjackers.

One of the biggest challenges that automated systems face is that the acceptable failure rate for them is far below the acceptable failure rate for humans in the same role. To err is human...

[zzzzzzzza]

yes but even humans are much better drivers on roads they are familiar with.