Artificial intelligence is indeed artificial, but intelligence has nothing to do with it unless you call Nth-order stimulus-response “intelligence.”
Pffffftttttt! Programming error. Or, the city FAILED to install the interface that should have alerted the AI uber transport unit.
Cars don’t recognize anything. Neither does software.
An amazing feature of the HUMAN mind is its ability to recognize objects and/or creatures. It can do this based on very minute perceptions. Our perception system is highly optimized and extremely efficient in dealing with the real world.
No computer program can come even close.
The human mind can deal with situations that it has never encountered. It is built this way. No simulation can approach this ability.
Ditch the idea of “self-driving” cars now.
They purposely disabled the self braking function of the Volvo they were using. Had they left it on the Woman would be alive and well.