> Harvesting fruit is far more complex than driving. It's a 3D search through a complex space.
Are you making a joke? "a 3D search [for a path that reaches the destination safely and legally] through complex space" is exactly how I would describe driving. (Also, driving is an online problem.)
Ever heard of an elevated highway, ramp, flying junction, bridge, or tunnel?
I mean, yeah the topology is not as complex as a pure unrestricted 3d space but it's also more complex than pure 2d space. It's a search through a space, and it's complex, I don't know if nitpicking about the topology adds a lot here?
That's still 2D space. A car simply can't move along the z axis, so the fact that the road itself moves in 3 dimensions is irrelevant.
Even navigational paths that consider all of the junctions, ramps, etc. are simply reduced to a weighted graph with no notion of any dimensions beyond forward and backwards.
Harvesting fruit is far more complex than driving. It's a 3D search through a complex space.
> Driving a car under non-ideal conditions is incredibly complex, and relies upon human communication.
No it doesn't. The rules of the road detail precisely how cars interact with each other and with pedestrians.
> We humans currently manage about one death per hundred million miles; Uber made it all of two million.
Incorrect use of statistics.