The reason is "our code is too stupid, because is not an actual intelligence and better sensors are expensive"? This is a bad reason from my point of view.

You claim that you have some super duper AI but it can't detect a truck or a wall from a shadow or bag , then your AI is stupid and buy some better sensors and improve your AI.

> our code is too stupid, because is not an actual intelligence

Well you don't ask for much

Is the “good reason” here that they have insufficient sensors?

My takeaway from that article was that there's not enough trust in the raw inputs and possibly a missing continuous weighting system of the sensory interpretations. (humans do this naturally, weighing their various sensory interpretations in real-time simultaneously)

Which is...linking a Wikipedia article? Doesn't quite compute.

Was a copy / paste failure. Meant to grab this link:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/why-emergency-braking-s...

If you mean "the software is too stupid to be useful here, so let's ignore a whole class of issues, potentially with lethal consequences; abracadabra, it's SEP now", I agree. OTOH, this stretches the meaning of "good" a little bit.

(thanks for the link correction)