This needs a great deal more research, but it is clear that the autonomous car ought to be approached much more circumspectly than it has been.

First lesson I learned in IT class way back in 1981 was "Computers can calculate 100,000 times faster than the human brain, which means that they can screw up 100,000 times faster than the human brain." Professor had been one of the A team at Bell Laboratories when they were advancing computers from very simple card readers to number crunchers. Jobs and Wozniak were just a rumor at the time ... they announced in the last few days of the class. The professor opened his first lecture with that statement and reiterated in almost every class all semester. There was a reason for that. Although intimately familiar with computers, he recognized that they were only as good as their programming and the data humans feed to it.

So was the Tesla going so fast because it was told to do so by the driver or because it responds to its environment?