How will AI drivers navigate these 'cultural' differences? Will they insist on following the letter of the law (presumably, for liability) or will they adapt to local practices and potentially lower their overall collision rate with humans driving poorly. Interesting near term question.

The unexpected is, by definition, what was not predicted.

"all the time" means it is not unexpected. Humans do mistakes and omissions that you've subconsciously learned that humans do, so you can adjust to deal with that.

The difficulty with AI is that it behaves like a completely alien being, making errors that are alien and unpredictable to a human driver.

For example, just because someone has their turn signal on and is slowing down doesn't mean they're going to turn.

From my experience with LLMs, AIs even when called to be creative are fairly consistent, even if at first they seem to be producing output that’s more creative than human norms.

Perhaps a self driving car's unexpected behavior is on the "too defensive" side while human drivers are on the "suddenly do something wildly dangerous" but this is easier to account for as a driver rather than more difficult to account for.

You wouldn’t expect someone to suddenly accelerate from a stop while they have a red light, so you don’t typically look both ways when driving through a light that has already been green for a while when there are cars on either side waiting.

I’m not saying Waymo cars do that; just an example of expected unexpected vs unexpected unexpected behavior.

Also sometimes I can intuit that the driver in front of me is probably going to do something dumb because of other minor things I've observed about their driving style.

are we going to jail some programmer because the missed a corner case and created a fatality.

ultimately what s problematic is what capitalism usually does which is externalize the costs via techno washing.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/news/volvo-will-accept-full-liabi...