Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Sorry. Your Car Will Never Drive You Around." video.

@flamegod7 TBH, most of the reason why these vehicles are going to take so many more decades is that they are having to integrate with human drivers and pedestrians. They could make the process a lot easier by doing things such as putting up walls along the roads, switching from lane markers to center of lane lines and changing the paint to encode information to help the cars move through the city. Then just have most of the cars load themselves onto trains for city to city travel. It's still a big challenge, but doing things like that would likely move the timetables up consistently as that would be a much simpler environment for the cars to need to navigate.
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That would be great, although a more achievable goal would be for electric cars to sound like actual real cars and at a reasonable volume as well. It's f-ed up that so many electric cars do have a speaker, but they're using it to make them sound like UFOs and the extra reaction time that entails.
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Self driving cars definitely will be there eventually, it's just a matter of when it happens. The fact that incompetent morons like Musk are screwing it up so badly does not mean that it's not coming. With the exception of some animals like deer that like to dash in random directions when startled, most other animals will figure it out and roads themselves will be engineered with ML cars in mind. At this point, it appears that we'll have nuclear fusion at some point in the foreseeable future, probably not soon enough really, but at least at this point there have been replicable test fires that did generate more energy than they put into it. The better question really is about the timing. That's a lot harder to say, but it will eventually happen, even if the roadways needed to have tallish fences on both sides with breaks where the cars are supposed to be entering or leaving the roadway. I also don't think we're anywhere near that point, it'll be at least a decade or two at the minimum and there probably will be a lot of road redesign to lower the bar a bit as well.
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