[gwbas1c]

One of the biases in Hacker News is that comments like yours tend to get downvoted.

Some of my more reserved comments get downvoted, and then flooded with replies about 360 vision and cars never getting sleepy.

IMO: Most of the autonomous driving tech will evolve to be driver assistance and safety tech in the upcoming decade. I still believe we'll get autonomous driving someday, but not until we have a few more AI breakthroughs.

Until then, "Autonomous driving" will be like "Duke Nukem Forever."

[detaro]

... he comments under the top comment.

Skepticism of self-driving tech and "AI" in general is a very popular position here.

[jeffreyrogers]

My most upvoted comments on HN[0] are the ones that pick on some hyped up technology. HN loves to be "contrarian" (in quotes because this contrarianism is actually the mainstream position).

[0]: I don't think this is good, it's just a statement of fact.

[bluGill]

It has been increasing. 5 years ago we were more hopeful. However the needed parts have not delivered and so we are rightly looking harder.

[gwbas1c]

5 years ago self-driving cars looked like technologists were letting their imagination run away.

There's always "something" that technologist think is right around the corner, until they realize that the hard problems are harder than they anticipated.

[dehrmann]

To be fair, Autopilot is about as good as Duke Nukem Forever.

[aeternum]

This is because OP's comment is simply an appeal to authority without any direct evidence or reasoning. Listen to the experts. This is highly counter to the hacker ethos, and personally, I'm disappointed to see it as a top comment on HN.