The problem is that they have to appear to be doning something but catching criminals is a lot like work, so they sometimes play "pin the crime on the donkey", ANY donkey. That's where general searches become a problem. A crime happened around X, you were near X, go to jail! QED.

The summary said it cleans itself, so I guess you don't need to wash it.

Clothes that need special handling aren't new. I had a suit, once, that required dry cleaning.

It *is* understandable. It's also a bar to understanding. (IIUC, the original computer bug was a moth.)
But viruses are VERY different from bacteria. They're called bugs because they're all small and at a quick glance you don't even see them. (And entomologists don't even call beetles bugs. Bugs are hemiptera.)

COVID was a virus, not a bacteria. (Viruses are easier.)

Sorry, the Andromeda Strain was too implausible in too many ways. That's NOT going to happen.

It's not that this isn't something to worry about, it's that your type-example is just silly.

Long term, perhaps. But I do understand that before I start making a place to display my Olympic gold medal in swimming, I should first be able to traverse the kiddie pool without needing the lifeguard.

It might be a good idea to practice on Antarctica first, then think about how we get to Mars.

A correctly written, correctly-implemented "human filter" would render this invisible to the AI.

Yeah, that's not what fair use means in US law. But I really doubt that a case could be made that this was fair use.

It may be a good decision in some ways, but it's clearly illegal.

No, it's going to need to let YOU navigate the grass lot. That it CAN manage the driving doesn't mean that it has to do it all the time.

Well, the real advantage is that if they guess wrong on which flu strain is going to dominate next year they can change the formula quickly. There are other advantages, but most of them don't affect as many people.

It's principle, not principal. AIs are not my pals.

Actually, above about a 20 mph difference in speeds I don't believe that humans CAN gage distance and speed well enough. And I may well have overestimated the minimum speed delta. (Admittedly some of that is reaction time rather than an estimation problem.) We do better with things that are off to one side, because there we can judge based or angles.

Have the chatbot remote-control a regular web browser, do human-like scrolling taking enough screen shots to capture the primary content, then run the screen through optical-character recognition using a "human filter" so it will only "see" things that a human with normal vision would see.

In practice this is much easier said than done. But if web site hosts insist on gaming the system, this is one way to counter it.

I suspect that they are currently better, on the average, than the average human driver, but that they have DIFFERENT edge cases. That would explain both the statistics reported and the news stories.