Claiming that the only "safety-relevant" (much less "safety-critical"!) functions of an auto-steer system are "must be able to easily turn it off" and "must only steer/accelerate/brake slowly" is pretty sketchy in the first place.
Claiming that these functions are adequately implemented by some software running on a single microprocessor? Just nope. No hard-wired shutdown/disconnect system, no redundancy/failover/self-checking, no visible attempts to follow any kind of coding standard... the whole thing's a science project, not a well engineered high-reliability system.
Edit: The reason I'm so adamant about this is that, while I don't consider myself a 'safety expert' or anything of the sort, I'm currently being forced to deal with this stuff (machine safety, not self driving cars) in my day job and it is WAY more indepth, rigorous and tightly regulated than any of the hand-wavey stuff that's being discussed here.
Claiming that these functions are adequately implemented by some software running on a single microprocessor? Just nope. No hard-wired shutdown/disconnect system, no redundancy/failover/self-checking, no visible attempts to follow any kind of coding standard... the whole thing's a science project, not a well engineered high-reliability system.
Edit: The reason I'm so adamant about this is that, while I don't consider myself a 'safety expert' or anything of the sort, I'm currently being forced to deal with this stuff (machine safety, not self driving cars) in my day job and it is WAY more indepth, rigorous and tightly regulated than any of the hand-wavey stuff that's being discussed here.