[phiy]

this is pretty fascinating to think about the implications. Everyone assumes that AI is going to be all powerful and scary, but these little edge cases just completely stop it in its tracks. It makes me wonder if any of the self-driving car projects have run into weird edge cases like this that which has stopped them from releasing it more seriously.

I can see many types of clothing could completely throw off the cars in a crosswalk type situation. Reflections are solved with lidar, I wonder if a sudden breeze picks up a dense cloud of dust, that the car reacts very unpredictably.

Its a possibility that insurance scams will evolve in the future to target these vehicles using adversarial techniques that for humans are obvious. How could we even stop that? It'd likely be a cat and mouse game.