[nl]

15 years ago I didn't think I'd see self-driving cars in my lifetime, and there didn't appear to be any prospect for computer vision to get anywhere near human levels of performance.

[dboreham]

And these thing are still true.

[nl]

We have self driving cars on the streets, and vision systems out performing humans at classifying objects.

[dboreham]

No we don't. Where can I buy a self-driving car? The vision systems are performing on a statistical basis that is admittedly impressive, but they are not "outperforming humans at vision" in any way that I understand.