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Bingo. Humans can make mistakes, but they can also recognize that something's gone wrong and change tactics to recover from it. Current self-driving systems can't do that effectively; they'll just keep going, even when they probably shouldn't.

>Do they continue to drive that way if they have a passenger yelling, "we are on train tracks?"

On a non-separated rail like in the video where you can just turn off at any time I can see a lot of people continuing to do it just to spite their spouse for screeching about the obvious.

Or on the other side of the coin I can see a lot of people just say nothing because it's probably fine and they'd rather not have the argument.

That would open up some very fun avenues for mischief if you could start yelling at the Waymo and pleading for it to change course