In the 50’s they predicted we would be flying our cars, see ya in 2020.
That was a cultural prediction, which was silly because flying cars are useless. Technically quite possible, but utterly useless, the wing span would make them undrivable, and the mechanism to bring in the wings would make it so heavy that they’d have no load capacity as a plane. Mine is a technical prediction. This is a technology we want, we know it’s wanted. People have been working towards it for ages, once it’s possible it will take off in the market place. And we’ve now put together the technology to show it is VERY possible. When you get right down to it self driving cars are nothing more than data crunching, they need to “see” the world around them and react to it, the same thing we do. Data crunching is the area where technology grows the most predictably and consistently. We crunch more data faster every day. The smartphone in your pocket as 10 times as much data processing as Deep Blue. It’s not if but when, we WILL have enough computing power available small enough and cheaply enough to do this. Probably we already do, we just need to write the logic.
You’re living in the future, don’t be so grumpy. They’re amazing times if you’re willing to be amazed.