Actually there's no reason to suppose that computer vision hasn't already exceeded the human capacity. After all, it has lidar and radar. Cheating or not, it has a very good result.
Agreed -- don't knock it if it works! However, those kinds of sensors don't really fall into what's normally considered "computer vision".
Mind you, I'm extremely optimistic about the potential successes of autonomous cars in the near- to mid-future (the next 5 to 25 years, say). But I don't want people to get the wrong impression about where the state of the art is today. And in particular, I want to push back against the idea that machine learning is a solved problem, and that autonomous cars can teach themselves to drive as well as a human if we only give them enough miles of practice.
