I will add:
I think NAME USER has been watching too many microsoft.com/ai commercials, which are a joke by the way. The recent one with the Snow Leopard?
A camera that sees motion when a snow leopard walks in front of it and snaps the shutter.
Wow.
That's not AI, it's a trail cam - the kind that has been available in Wal-mart's outdoor section for decades.
Does anyone know how they programmed the Waymo cars?
If it is deterministic AI (software) then it is just an imperfect human writing imperfect code. There is an IF THEN statement in there somewhere that will kill people. Then who's liable?
If it is software that is capable of choosing whether to swerve and hit the mom & baby carriage in the crosswalk or hit 6 adults on the sidewalk, how does it make that choice? Is there ethical programming in the software? Who is liable for such choices?
Do Waymo riders have a say in such choices? The general public (pedestrians)?
Right now Waymo in sunny Phoenix is a neat parlor trick. Sort of how a Roomba is cool until you come home one day to find it did a great job of spreading Fido's dog doo-doo all over your kitchen floor.