On one hand I understand that it is a monumental advance in technology.
On the other hand a computer can recognize a unique face from pretty far.
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Having self driving in a controlled environment (akin to a laboratory environment in other fields of research) can be done now. But, we are still long ways away from self driving as an consumer product, that works everyday, everywhere, and, makes money for the companies that are selling it.
To get there using machine leaning, we still need to collect a lot of data on things that can occur on the road, and the right ways to respond to each of those conditions.
Then there is the matter of making money. To get there faster, we can always pile on more sensors and more expensive sensors, as well as powerful expensive computers to process those data. But are consumers willing to spend 10’s of thousands more per car to get the self driving feature?
Then there is the matter of engineering. All of those new equipment that has not been used in cars before, now has to work every where a car can go, and over the life duration that a car is expected to last, and have a low enough failure rate as to not cause a stir over millions of cars sold. That is not easy.
But never the less, I don’t think that there is any doubt we will eventually have self driving. Unlike human drivers where each person has to learn from scratch, get better, then get worse as we age, and lastly lose it all as we die, the AI behind self driving will never get worse.
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