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.
Eh, Musk’s pivoting a bit towards humanoid robots. Self-driving cars are sorta off the table, and Musk’s car brand in general is not doing well due to his political shenanigans and the tone of US international relations recently.
It’s much more beneficial to him and the ultra elite, to develop humanoid robots that can get deployed as a civilian pacification paramilitary force, anywhere in the world, supported by Starlink etc. With enough investment/production, a very small ultra wealthy elite can completely control the world in a very overt, unapologetic and totally unaccountable way.
Like if a paramilitary robot screws up and shoots some extra protestors, it prolly wouldn’t even make the news, which’d be controlled by similar billionaires with their own robot paramilitary forces. But a self driving car screws up and causes accidents, and you get all these poor people whining at you, with no recourse to just have your robots shoot them silent.
If they’re depending on musk for this tho, they’re fucked. His stupid ass robots are vaporware.