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> This article is about cars driving in simulation, not on the real streets. But I do wonder how they can introduce truly "unpredictable" events in the simulations.

Like normal SW: Requirement: navigate this road with those signs. Test: Put the same signs as in requirement. Check that car navigates correctly.

> I don't know anything about self driving cars, but it seems like solving self driving cars isn't far off having general artificial intelligence. How well does a car react when there is a construction flagger telling it to turn around, or when there is no signs and the traffic lights go down due to a power failure?

It either continues or stops. When the traffic lights go off it uses the computed right of way.

> Also, my recent experience trying to order a chipotle burrito from an AI assistant over the phone did not leave me too dazzled with the state of the AI industry.

It's the same for self driving cars. It is like every SW designed after a set of requirements: you feed it with something not specified in requirements and whatch it crash or spitting an error message.