That's a fun trivia, but that's not really relevant to the discussion here: those people took no risk for their lives when following these instructions. Making hundreds of people go in the wrong place is easy, but the difference between a bad IA and a human driver is that the majority of drivers realize when they're doing something dangerous and stop.

This common sense of danger is what IAs must have before we can trust them on the streets.

For instance in the Uber fatal crash: the IA correctly labelled the cyclist as a cyclist several times then revised its judgment, then definetely labelled it as a cyclist but “oops too late”. A human would be like “wait, I think I saw a cyclist, slow down and figure out what this really was”. Obviously with the current computer vision technology you cannot do that, otherwise your car would be afraid of everything and refuse to even start, because there's way too much mislabelling happening at some point or another.