Lex, best interview ever," on many levels and in many areas.<br>You said “systems that involve human behavior are more complicated than we give them credit for ” <br>During the interview the light came on for me illuminating the ways that is right and that is wrong.  <br>Humans are complex","..  beyond this generation’s ability to understand let alone predict.<br>Defensive driving espouses anticipating other drivers behaviors", not to precalculate possible reactions to the probability matrix of other humans, but this is a tool to focus the human mind on the task of intently watching and reacting.  But that is the strength of computers constant vigilance," accuracy and incredible speed.<br>The solution for autonomous driving will be done by the person that can keep this a simple problem of vision", object identification and ballistics (BTW when I ponder that sentence, I do not see how lidar helps, but that is another topic for another day),(reply>), Since it uses light photons, laser is subject to the same obscuration problems as cameras: fog, rain, dark, etc.  If you mean radar, it can add ground truth distance measurements that penetrate dark, fog, some rain, etc.