That's why one place I really want a driving assist is automatically backing out of spaces in parking lots. Visibility is terrible for the driver. You need to be paying close attention in multiple directions at once, you often don't have visibility at all when you need to start moving (like a larger vehicle parked next to you), and both pedestrians and other vehicles can appear out of nowhere, often moving in unexpected directions. It feels very unsafe.
Computer vision could be making those go-stop decisions for you, much more effectively than human drivers.
Heck, imagine a "smart" parking lot that tracks its available spaces and communicates with your car. You enter the parking lot and hand over control, and the car and lot work together to park you safely in the best available space.
Some cars already have those. I've got a car from 2017 that has some kind of sensors wrapping all the way around the bumper. When I'm parked between two cars, it can detect a car roughly 15-20 feet away as soon as I get an inch or two of my bumper clear of the other cars.
It does lack any spatial indicators to the driver, though. It just plays a beep, but it doesn't seem to play the beep from the side of the car the danger is in, nor does it beep louder when they're closer. Still, it works remarkably well. Reliably detects pedestrians and vehicles (even while I'm moving, which is impressive, because it doesn't go off for parked cars when I start moving).
I think it's the Dodge ParkSense, but I bought the car used so there's a possibility it's something aftermarket.
It's saved my ass a number of times. I'm in jacked-up pickup truck country, so it is often impossible for me to see pedestrians about to walk behind me because of the lifted truck, and likewise the pedestrians can't see me until they're behind me.
Computer vision could be making those go-stop decisions for you, much more effectively than human drivers.
Heck, imagine a "smart" parking lot that tracks its available spaces and communicates with your car. You enter the parking lot and hand over control, and the car and lot work together to park you safely in the best available space.