[JoBrad]

But wouldn’t a car avoid a giraffe, too?

[gdny]

A perfect one, sure, but in practice the car might, at best, treat it with less priority than a human in case of a difficult decision to make, and at worst, treat a « 40% confidence giraffe » as a false positive and ignore it

[simonh]

If a self driving car purposely ignores Giraffes or even real objects incorrectly identified as Giraffes or anything else, I think that's a problem. Africa is a place people drive cars in. And then there's this:

https://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/cute-sew-giraffe-c...

[codetrotter]

Imagine the headlines.

“Man run over by car in Lower Manhattan – autonomous vehicle mistook man for a giraffe”