This seems obviously wrong? Any system whose name includes the word "forecast" was built to predict the future in some domain / over some time horizon / to some level of granularity.

A bunch of numbers do not compare to the brains ability to imagine. Some of you bozos just dont get it do you?

Unfortunately we bozos just aren't that imaginative :'(

Machines will never seem magical, we will just stop thinking we are. At the end of the day it's all electrical signals.

It's an interesting thought, but isn't that still a statistical response to stimuli based on learned experience? Albeit one more advanced and subtle

It no more requires reasoning about the future as such than does stopping when someone or something is actually in the way (and thus the car will hit it in the future)

I’m not sure about that, I mean this is something that client-side prediction in games is doing all the time, so why wouldn’t a self-driving car do it?

"It's just a statistical prediction machine"