[kyro]

It's not 'out of nowhere.' It's because we're humans. We're paranoid and reactionary. You wouldn't see that with robots.

[req2]

If I say I made a cake 'from scratch' (idiom: 'from nothing'), do you quibble that flour and eggs were indeed used, and that they are clearly not 'nothing'?

[kyro]

Mentioning how you made a cake from scratch and linking to a video of seemingly scientific research claiming an event to happen out of nowhere and for no apparent reason are two completely different things, due to the two completely different contexts.

[tlrobinson]

I think his point was that we all understand that "out of nowhere" doesn't mean "magically", at some level it has to be the drivers' fault.

The video doesn't even say "out of nowhere", it says "for no apparent reason".

[randomwalker]

Cynical much? How about it's because we have bounded cognitive abilities, limited perceptive accuracy and slow reaction times?

[dkarl]

You're forgetting the natural caution and fearfulness that protect us from depending too much on our limited abilities when safety is at stake.

[apotheon]

That too.

[kragen]

You can certainly program robots to do that. The question is whether you can program them not to without losing something important (robustness against unexpected conditions or malicious robots, for example).

[RyanMcGreal]

Emergent network phenomenon is emergent.