However, I totally sympathize with him, living in Pittsburgh and driving in proximity to Uber's and a few other company's cars. There have been times when I've been following an autonomous car and it makes a turn onto a completely clear road, then suddenly slams on the brakes for no observable reason. Yes, I should be ready to handle this situation, but it's certainly not expected.
Knowing that Uber safety drivers intervene an average of about once a mile certainly makes me wary of these cars and not enjoy driving around them.
Humans employ these driving techniques not because they’re stupid, but because they’re confident that they can pull off these moves safely (even though that is sometimes not true). In the future I’d expect the software to also advance to a state where it can confidently speed and pull off risky moves.
Of course, there are other problems (bugs really) still extant that don't have an upside I can see - such as remaining stationary and letting another vehicle back into you from 20 ft away, out of "caution"; which I think is a rough description Las Vegas crash.
I don't doubt that AI that isn't ethical (say causes others to crash sometimes, but saves you ten seconds) could be create and might appeal to many, but I don't look forward to this development.
Haven't found a solution, or have found one and haven't implemented it? For example, I've been recently pondering how to resolve tailgating. How about a system like this:
Vehicles will be mandated to have distance sensors in both front and rear (some already have this for sake of back-up cameras and auto-braking), essentially a car sonar system. If your car is moving, it detects the distance between you and those in front and in back. If you are traveling too closely to the car in front of you (tailgating), your vehicle will be mandated to emit a warning buzz sound in the cabin, which intensifies in strength the smaller the gap. For someone tailgating you, perhaps a visual indication behind.
This way the closer one tailgates, the more audible (and possibly visual) feedback a driver gets. Hopefully the audio is annoying enough that most sensible tailgaters (oxymoron?) would back off.
Strengthen this with a visual indicator on the roof of the vehicle, perhaps, so that if someone is tailgating, a light on the roof turns on indicating such. Would make it trivial for police officers and traffic cams to notice. I think part of bad driving behavior is the anonymity cars today offer: with tinted glass and the feeling like you're in a safe, sound-proof cocoon, so this visual indicator may help shatter that in a good way.