You’re actively paying huge dollar figures to experiment with your survival. Which I don’t judge even if I find it too risky for my taste. But your giant expensive experimental hunk of alloys and minerals is also a death sentence for others when it messes up.

Which is why we should use something less experimental and black-boxy than machine learning and more verifiable and robust like fiducials. (Regardless of whether we're talking about using machine vision for attempts at "self-driving," autopilot, or just driver safety features like lane-keeping or auto-braking or automatic speed limit reading.)