I think the central thesis of OP is that the current infrastructure is built for humans. We seem to do OK. So, if anything, these kinds of issues are an indictment of the failure of self-driving tech that was boosted to insane hype around 2017-2018. Now we're getting to a phase called "Trough of Disillusionment" in the Gartner terminology. If we require the rest of the infrastructure to be rebuilt for self-driving tech, then it is a irrefutable admission of failure.