The thing that humans can do that machines cannot is react to something that they never expected and haven&#x27;t been programmed for.  A human can generalise or invent a solution to a new situation that a computer simply will not be able to do.<p>You are correct that in the vast majority of situations a computer will outperform a human.  I&#x27;ve avoided accidents by luck more than judgement, guessing that the car will be able to do what I&#x27;m asking (whilst the autopilot would know at all times and react in milliseconds).<p>All the world needs to accept is that at some point someone will die because of an auto pilot error and that&#x27;s ok because it&#x27;s net lower numbers of deaths than the same number of humans driving.