It can accelerate, steer, and brake under specified conditions. But drivers must always keep their hands on the steering wheel when on Autopilot. It is required to maintain control. And for insurance and legal purposes.
AI has a big role in getting to Level-5
One reason it’s been hard to get to level-5 autonomy is that human drivers often use intuition to make quick decisions when encountering a new situation.
The so-called computer in our brain comes equipped with intuition. And the machine learning that creates algorithms to make self-driving cars possible has to include every possible scenario.
There have been several instances of Tesla cars on Autopilot encountering new situations. And this resulted in an accident. These are cases where situations haven’t been programmed into the algorithm. And there is no human to exercise their intuition with their hands on the steering wheel.
So far the ability of the human brain to adapt to a situation has not been wholly incorporated into artificial intelligence.
