I'm not sure that human uses that general intelligence when driving and when decisions must be made quickly. I think that brain uses shortcuts and does not really reason about things. And those shortcuts are likely work similar to trained neural networks. That's one reason why novice drivers have problems: they don't have those shortcuts in their brains yet, so they have to reason and that takes valuable time and attention.

Though I think that robotic automobiles must perform better than humans, so equipping them with better sensors makes perfect sense, regardless of algorithms.