The Very Human Problem Blocking the Path to Self-Driving Cars #autonomicFuture #readingToday

The experience helped confirm a thesis Coelingh and Volvo had been testing: A car with any level of autonomy that relies upon a human to save the day in an emergency poses almost insurmountable engineering, design, and safety challenges, simply because humans are for the most part horrible backups. They are inattentive, easily distracted, and slow to respond. "That problem's just too difficult," Coelingh says.