Current language models (misnomered as “AI”) are great at some things but fail at any real thinking.
Self-Driving works decently in predictable environments but anything outside of those limits can make it literally crash and burn.
Public road transportation by individuals just has too many cases where real decision-making is required.
Despite all their resources, I think they’ve given up. All the brilliant engineers and scientists have given up, because they know what we’ve suspected for a long time.
The only way self-driving vehicles can work is if roadways are designed for them.
Like how they can sometimes work as shuttle vehicles for airports parking lots and such if they have designated roads that only they use.
Human perception took literally millions of years to develop to interpret and interact with the world. And it requires the capacity to understand.
AI (probability prediction models) can’t do that. And they never will.