[mrspeaker]

I think it's very different from the halting problem because there is no perfect solution (like there is with "either the problem halts or it does not"). A self-driving car just needs to be good enough, where "good enough" means X% more reliable than the average human driver.

I personally am terrified of human drivers and will not walk close to the edge of a road because I don't trust them to be paying attention. As shown recently, self-driving cars appear to not yet be at that level (though I don't know the numbers - perhaps they are).

When self-driving cars reliably have same-or-few accidents per year (by volume) then I think they can claim "Full Self-Driving".

[kahnpro]

What's really scary about self-driving cars is that defects can be global.

One software bug can make every Tesla go into casual murder mode on a similar piece of road.

[taf2]

Humans write the software the power those self driving cars... was it an error that always repeated it self or did only happen every billion iterations? I’m all for self driving but it’s still horrifying to think of the edge cases with software touching the physical world...

[darepublic]

It's moreso the cases where the ML model(s) fail(s) to perform the correct action. Essentially the inputs after being passed through the weighted neural network fail to sum up to the correct number == rip pedestrian/passengers.