[Drumlin]

I think counting it in decades rather than years is more realistic. So many major innovations are described as being in the next ten years.

If you look at VR, which I think is simple in comparison, you could have experienced it in a high end 90s arcade. It is only now starting to become a mass produced product.

In my view, the current self driving cars look like where VR was before they turned the technology into arcade machines.

[ghaff]

I'm willing to believe that genuine autopilot on a subset of limited access highways could come sooner. Which would be very nice to have but doesn't. of course, enable any of the use cases that get people all excited.

At this point, it seems as if everyone feels they need to play this "right around the corner" one-upmanship game less people think they're late to the party.