The location is the end of some tidal flow lanes rejoining the main freeway lanes with an unusual configuration of lane markings and barriers. I drive past the spot all the time and can totally see a computer messing up here.

In other words, "works great if it works, might actively try to kill you at random, there's no clear way of telling when it might try the latter, it's your fault in any case." Yeah, that's very much the safe driving paradise I'm being promised "in two years" for a decade now, by the technooptimists. It's almost as if the technology is at 50%-ready instead of the 90% that marketing types seem to peddle, who would have thunk?

pretty much

The computer decided that staying in the middle of a wide lane was more important than avoiding a large obstacle where there was sufficient room on either side. That's bog-standard target-fixation fallacy. Is that excelling?

It might not have been radically unusual, but that doesn't make it consistent either.. (looked like lanes where closed to me)