Here's an interesting read related to any automated vehicle. Worth a look over. Its from the Austrialian Transportation Safety Board. The incident of Quantas Flight 72.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3532398/ao2008070.pdf
Start on "Executive Summary". You're welcome to read the rest of 300+ pages though.
Sorry, not going to read it - because it's totally irrelevant. You can throw words around as much as you like, but when it comes to average people driving cars, they are NOT going to be anywhere NEAR as involved as you are suggesting they should be. To do what you are saying would require a whole new level of training and accountability ... and autonomous vehicles are moving us further away from such imposts.
It's just NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
Also, I strongly feel that your analogy with the airline industry is an insult to everybody involved. For one thing, one of THE main dangers of aviation comes from the fact that when something goes wrong, a pilot cannot simply "pull over" to the side of the road, like you can in a car. Running out of fuel is a life and death matter in the air. On the ground, it's a nuisance. I could go on and on....
You're missing the main point.
Just because one operates in 3D and the other in 2D doesn't mean they have absolutely zero relation to each other. I don't expect you to read all of it. You didn't even bother reading my previous response in which I provide a solution to the thermal problem.
I expect to connect the dots that caused the entire system to fail. One failure is not enough to cause the whole thing to fail after all. Its more of an insult to people who died or will die if you ignore all the possibilities and recommended preventative actions. Another thing, you really think that lowly of average people. Insulting much?
Also since you mentioned training, yes I do think people need to be educated and trained. Should it be as involved as a pilot? Of course not, but it goes a long way to help try preventing tragedies like this. Future drivers will also learn something new instead of slowly becoming dumb and lazy. Most people these days don't even know how to change a tire and straight away call AAA. Worse off, I wouldn't be surprised if people cover the sensor locations they are uneducated about with decals, flags or whatever. Who knows, maybe contributed here?
One more thing, you really haven't made any case to say
why we should take a human being completely out of the loop (
my main point!). Really,
why should we take human beings out? If you could go on and on, please enlighten us. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind having a human out partly caused this accident's outcome. Its definitely a part of the "how". I highly doubt this question is irrelevant. At least try to say why its irrelevant instead of just saying "totally irrelevant" while being so focused on the airplane part....
You can improve all you want on the cameras but something else will just fail anyways. Don't be shocked if we come back to this same topic talking about yet another "superficial" failure if they end up fixing the camera only.