Meeker
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So the better these systems get, the less actual driving the driver does. Which means, when it does fail back to the driver, who is likely doing something else, their skills have degraded / atrophied and they'll be less capable of dealing with the situation.Takes just one moron who's on their phone or playing with their radio to cause an accident. A whole lot more of those going around than "glitches" in redundant systems.
Also, from a programming perspective, these systems have fail-safes so they avoid exactly what you're saying.
If the inputs are outside defined bounds, fails to driver
if the outputs are beyond defined bounds, fails to driver
if a solar flair happens and the computer goes down, fails to driver.
if the system tries to fail to driver and does not allow it, it disables the system, and defaults to driver.
If you worked from home for months straight in 2020 like a large number of people did, you would likely have noticed how your first day back on the road your skills weren't up to their usual standard.
Self driving is going to increase the number of low-skill drivers on the roads by orders of magnitude. But hey, they "reverted control to the driver" just before they died so no liability...
Sorry for the rant - this is one "convenience" feature I am happy to do without.