Comment by PinguTS

I remember the gnome thing. But that is nothing I have any knowledge about. So this area was for me like unknowledged people learn about things.

Automation is actually my area. Self-droving cars are in development for more than 50 years. In the 1970s it was more analogous technology that needed a lot of space. Fact is today technology is not that much better than that. Except, at the days it was highly supervised by professionals.

Many hardware devices we have in our cars today profited from those developments. Because radar and things are now cheaply avalaible. But self-driving is still not a thing. All the improvements in AI even didn't realy helped.

What many people seems to forget AI is about to detect (learned) patterns and to make decisions based on those patterns. But AI is completely unpreditcable on patterns it can't recognise. AI will classify those into a know pattern. But this is random and as such the judgedment is random. That is the big difference to a human, which can still cope with an unknown situation.

That is the reason why many people from the industry say: real self-driving cars will take very much longer than the average publics thinks and was told by Elon, Uber and others.