> And here we are, a decade later.

With Waymo and Tesla increasingly doing what they said they would do, and a small number of early adopters happily paying money for their services, that do work.

So what's the critique? That the timelines are not correct? Sure. And how about the timeline of the people who said "research level math, never in my lifetime" and the people inside the ai companies who are apparently increasingly spooked by how quick the progress is? How about the various levels of code/programming jobs that AI was supposedly never going to be able to do, but, in reality, now just does?

We are engaging in some very one-sided discrediting, and I am not sure, why.

And, those companies are notably avoiding wet climates because they still struggle with self-driving in inclement weather. It's probably going to be another decade before we get to the point where these things can handle every situation. Just like all other engineering, the first 90% is the easy part.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-cars-dont-do-snow-...