CliffEdge wrote:My idea of a driverless car is,
I get in, tell it where to go, anywhere in the UK, sit back and relax, read a book, listen to music, enjoy the views, have a nap, it wakes me up when I get there.
I don't need a licence, or even to be able to see.
Ain't gonna happen sadly. Anything else is driver assistance, not knocking it. Useful to have, but I'll still need a licence, be competent to drive, eyesight etc.
Not self driving private cars except in very restricted situations like the motorway where they might do most of the driving but you certainly won't be allowed to fall asleep! Never gonna happen in the next twenty years.
How do you know?
Sure it hasn’t happened yet, but what fundamental reason is there to support your thesis?
Back when the internet started, what was called the information super highway was stated to need massive government spending & take a long time, but it all happened very quickly.
Folk used to say with certainty that machines would never beat grand masters at chess & that GO would not be beaten for decades if at all. Then neural nets appear & now they defeat all grand masters, often many simultaneously & ditto for GO.
If fsd was a pure academic exercise it might not have much momentum, but there are trillions of $ to be made from
a working fsd, bringing in the best talent in this field, very like how the Manhattan project got all the best physicists in the US, & repeat in Russia, China etc.
If fsd is to happen all the ingredients to make it happen soon are in place.
In my humble opinion based on having worked on several software hardware projects, it is now probable that fsd will become a reality & that we will soon have humanoid robots. Tesla imho is very inexpensive, but of course can get cheaper if the whole market crashes.
Regards,