Maybe you do. I mostly spend every moment in terror when someone else is driving.

This is funny. I feel the same way

It doesn't mean they are bad drivers, but not being in control gives you a very different view of the situation

I guess since you don't know their "internal state" you don't know how recklessly they are driving actually

Human drivers are better at judging the behavior of other human drivers than autonomous cars currently seem to be. We can tell when a bus is about to pull out, or not, due to various cues (engine noise, exhaust, the sound of hydraulic brakes, onboarding passengers,signal lights, the presence of traffic behind us, etc,) which the Google car was apparently blind to.

If you watch closely too you can almost always tell when a car is about to change lanes, even before (if they bother to at all) activate their turn signal or depart their lane. I'd love to see automated cars process stuff like this (small behavioral cues from human drivers)...maybe they already do? I'm guessing that they're not just relying on turn signals to predict intentions :)

The driver was also blind to this, according to the article.

The Google car apparently had a driver who missed it too.

Would they have missed it if they were driving, or did they trust the Google car more than their own instincts, though?