I find the idea of AI driving a one-ton on-road vehicle a bit scary, but kept these thoughts to myself, until an article that confirmed this fear appeared in my October IEEE Spectrum, with an author much more qualified to voice (or pixilate) these fears than I.
“The lack of technical comprehension across industry and government is appalling. People do not understand that the AI that runs vehicles—both the cars that operate in actual self-driving modes and the much larger number of cars offering advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS)—are based on the same principles as ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs). These systems control a car’s lateral and longitudinal position—to change lanes, brake, and accelerate—without waiting for orders to come from the person sitting behind the wheel…”