[comstock]

The thing about self driving cars is the point at which they become generally viable is defined by human social issues.

We could have self-driving cars today. Heck, we could have had them in the 90s. In limited scenarios, and with some small infrastructure investment.

I don't personally view it as a super-hard technical problem. It is a much much harder social problem.

[frgtpsswrdlame]

You don't think self-driving is a hard technical problem? Come on man, that's obvious BS.

[averagewall]

I think by "hard" he means "might not achieve it". But they actually already exist, so they're automatically possible.

[frgtpsswrdlame]

The existing systems could not be defined as self-driving. And the idea that we could have had them in the 90s is ludicrous.

[comstock]

We did have them in the 90s:

http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html

http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/back_to_the_future_aut...

You seem to have a personal definition of self-driving. What I was saying was to have self driving cars, today you need to:

a) resolve the social issues around self driving cars.

b) install a small amount of infrastructure to enable self-driving cars/standardize roads.