They sell these features as "parking assist" or "smart cruise control" or similar, but don't kid yourself into thinking that there's not a very sophisticated software system that could, if hacked, take over control. Has this ever happened? Have there been catastrophic bugs documented?
More advanced vehicles (i.e. Tesla) have enough hardware to be be nearly fully autonomous today. (i.e. they could rend control from a driver and continue to pilot the vehicle to an alternate destination if hacked)
This is very much not true of humans.
> Vastly decreased likelihood of being tricked by vandals exploiting flaws in recognition algorithms
This is not particularly true of humans. The human eye is very easily tricked. It's true that there are things that would not fool us and would fool a computer, but the inverse is also true.
* Lack of software bugs due to careless programming.
* Millions of years of brain evolution allows adapting to unforeseen circumstances.
* Vastly decreased likelihood of being tricked by vandals exploiting flaws in recognition algorithms.
* Inability to be hacked en masse and driven into each other/houses/pedestrians.
* Much harder to back-door.
* Can be judged in court if they swerve to avoid a pigeon and hit a crowd of pedestrians.
I could go on, but this should drive the point home pretty clearly, IMHO.