[jfengel]

Roads, signs, and traffic lights are all pretty standardized. They're not the hard part.

The hard part is road conditions, which can't be standardized unless you completely separate them from humanity. No human drivers, no people walking in the street. Also no trees, no weather, and no potholes.

The hard problems are all AI-hard. Compared to those, deciphering the standardized parts with machine vision is already long since solved.

I personally think that humans are already intensely bad drivers, easily distracted and unreliable. I'd replace them with AI drivers right now, using existing tech, and the net number of deaths would go down. (It's tens of thousands per year in the US, and that's been falling only because the passengers have become better protected.)