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That is a fair concern, but also keep in mind that this is one guy’s project. And with even more effort and debugging, I’m sure he could get it to 100%.

I really think sensor fusion is how we get there, like LIDAR or imaging radar on top of a really, REALLY good multispectral machine vision system.

It’s similarly disconcerting how bad I am (and other humans) at spotting people crossing the street at night if they’re wearing dark clothes. I gotta imagine there are analogous corner cases for machine vision, and a sensor fusion approach should help solve that.

And now you see why self driving cars aren't single developer hobby projects released in to the wild.

Also you may be overestimating human vision. I doubt normal drivers have 97% accuracy spotting all hazards on the road. We get by mostly on the fact that we keep hazards off the road whenever possible.