Recently, Greg Farris posted:

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Apparently, you missed the part where most of the vehicles also
failed the "charted" course. In other words, they failed because
they were not capable of functioning autonomously. Regardless of the
notions, acting autonomously in a 2D dynamic environment will always
be easier than operating in a 3D dynamic environment.

Euh - we were talking about taxiing - on the ground.

I was talking about autonomous operation. It doesn't matter where that is.

Now, imagine you have full control of all environmental variables.

No point, because that's never the case.

No
rules - you can do anything you want. Plough it flat, remove all
obstacles, pave it, put down wires,tapes, optical encoders every two
inches - you can even gouge a groove in it and put a pin in the nose
of your vehichle if you want.

Do you still maintain that the present state of our AI is not up to
the challenge?

Look at the results of the DARPA challenge, and decide for yourself.

Neil