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Out of curiosity, do you have a specific source for,

"There is lots of evidence that AI can be much _better_ than a human driver, although currently on things like well mapped highway driving with clear conditions."

The only thing I know about is claims from Tesla, comparing Autopilot (in "well mapped highway driving with clear conditions") versus general human drivers (and which, as I recall, had some further sketchiness).

They can easily surpass humans in really specified problems like looking at millions of cells and identifying which is likely cancerous. Today’s AIs are pretty bad at complex problems where each subproblem would require a specific AI and then some logical thinking on top measuring each results’ to each other. And driving in non-trivial circumstances is definitely in the latter category

Without special infra, we are atleast 50 years away.

> well mapped highway driving with clear conditions

and perfectly visible unambiguous markings. The bar is rather low.