Fast reaction times, good sensors and unyielding focus are not enough to drive safely. An agent also needs situational awareness and an understanding of the entities in its environment and their relations.
Without the ability to understand its environment and react appropriately to it, all the good the fast reaction times will do to an AI agent is to let it take the wrong decisions faster than a human being.
Just saying "computers" and waving our hands about won't magically solve the hard problems involved in full autonomy. Allegedly, the industry has some sort of plan to go from where we are now (sorta kinda level-2 autonomy) to full, level-5 autonomy where "computers" will drive more safely than humans. It would be very kind of the industry if they could share that plan with the rest of us, because for the time being it sounds just like what I describe above, saying "computers" and hand-waving everything else.
Without the ability to understand its environment and react appropriately to it, all the good the fast reaction times will do to an AI agent is to let it take the wrong decisions faster than a human being.
Just saying "computers" and waving our hands about won't magically solve the hard problems involved in full autonomy. Allegedly, the industry has some sort of plan to go from where we are now (sorta kinda level-2 autonomy) to full, level-5 autonomy where "computers" will drive more safely than humans. It would be very kind of the industry if they could share that plan with the rest of us, because for the time being it sounds just like what I describe above, saying "computers" and hand-waving everything else.