I'm pretty convinced I have a much better understanding of the world around my car than AP ever will in the next decade or more
The two aren't really comparable though ... plenty of cases where AI will out perform human - because it is specific-purpose rather than multi-purpose like the brain
You (well "me" if not "you" ) : Car starts intruding from nearside lane, I swerve into adjacent offside lane which leads to :"Swerve then check if clear" and maybe hit someone, "Check if clear then swerve" and I may be hit by the intruding vehicle in the interim. I usually have a reasonably up to date idea of whether the adjacent lane is clear.
AP already knows the lane is clear, and if not precisely how much room is available to "yield" taking into account the trajectory of other traffic.
There is a YouTube of a car in a queue of traffic (stopped on AP) hit from behind and it steers into adjacent lane in order to avoid hitting the car in front it. AP started from a position of knowing it was clear ... I don't reckon I would have done that (even if I had been watching impeding disaster in my rear view mirror)
Humans miss potholes when we know exactly what they look like in daily life
Me: Blast. Need to remember that one is there for tomorrow ...
Tomorrow: There's a pothole somewhere near here. ... Blast!
Telsa: A Wazer told me there was a pothole at this Lat/Long to 18 digits precision
As long as it doesn't swerve to miss the pothole and hit the raised kerb, in coming car or cyclist.
Human is going to do that, AI is going to be aware of all those things (operative words being "going to be"
)
over the next five or ten years that lead will very probably be eroded by the many competitors
Although: Tesla can rack up data from the whole fleet, and operate both shadow mode ("
AP would have done X but human driver did Y. Why was that?") and simulation: run new AI Algorithm against all the journeys ever recorded ...
(Tesla are not actually recording ALL journeys, only some interesting ones - AFAIK - but of course they could start recording if they had a need)
That gives Tesla an edge over competition ... no telling that it will make a difference of course, but I'm definitely backing Musk on the route he has chosen to pursue.