10 September

A wonderful example of how autonomous driving is much smarter than humans. The reviewer here happy with the way the car overtakes on the freeway, but says he would have done the move earlier and merged back earlier. But if you watch what's actually happening, the car is monitoring the speed of the car in front, which is slower than the speed limit and therefore the car is waiting to see if it will speed up, before merging behind it. Then when it does merge, the car in front slows down and the autonomous driving is slower to get back up to the speed limit than the truck which overtakes him. But again the computer is driving in a way that is best for traffic flow as a whole, not for instantaneous perceptions of going too fast or too slow, relative to the traffic around the car. It doesn't accelerate and brake sharply in response to every other vehicle. The reviewer obviously considers himself a good driver. Like all humans, he's mostly clueless.