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If you google "self-driving cars further away than you think," you get articles saying that from 2013 all the way through 2020, and I think the below very recent article is a good statement about the state of the art today, which, while cheerleading the efforts still ongoing, is basically in the same vein:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/5/23711586/autonomous-vehicle-investment-toyota-nvidia

True, widespread self-driving seems decades away and may be, as one source in that article put it, "basically impossible." Investments in self-driving companies have plummeted, many have closed, etc. Companies are focusing on more limited applications and enhancing automated driver assistance, along the lines I suggested, which will make the road far safer without having to close the gap between nifty and *usually* impressive performance in limited, mapped playgrounds today and a world where everyone could really rely on these things all the time in any locations and any conditions.

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To be fair that prompt to google is expected to give results that say that we are not close. The Atlantic published an article a few days ago stating that we are close. I don't think we are, and the article mainly discusses test environments. It also does point out challenges.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/robotaxi-services-self-driving-cars-national-rollout/675659/

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