[WesolyKubeczek]

This argument is really dumb. I understand deaf people can drive, too, but the additional auditory input is very helpful. When an emergency vehicle is far behind me, I hear the sirens and know to look in the mirror and move right to let it pass me. I can hear the bells of a railroad crossing even if I cannot see its lights blinking due to the road curvature, and start reducing my speed so I approach it smoothly. Some stupid junctions like the one described below, I hear a car approaching well before I can see it.

That said, there is no point making a self driving rig if it’s going to only be as good as the best humans are. For adoption, it must be provably better in any situation imaginable: moving obstacles, weather, dust, dark drunk humans in the night, emergency vehicles, no lanes drawn on the road, read all road signs correctly (say my Yaris gives me mistaken readings where maximum mass is confused with speed, it doesn’t know what “built-up” area means with regard to speed limits, it sometimes reads a sign that belongs to an adjacent road). For it all to work, you need more input than vision. And redundancy. Lots of redundancy.