How scientist can say “We’re X years away from…”?

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Sometimes we hear stuff like “we’re about 6 years away from finding a cure for (blank)” or something like 10 years away from self driving cars being a reliable mode of transportation

How do they know even an estimate of how close or far away we are from these things?

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We’ve been hearing, “We will have solved fusion power within twenty years” for fifty years now.

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