Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close”
I&#x27;ve been saying this for a while. The problem is that people are mostly familiar with the rate of overcoming traditional technical challenges  (e.g., making your current computer&#x2F;phone more compact, improving graphics quality, making cameras and screens with more pixels, etc.). What people don&#x27;t realize is that full autonomous driving will require more than just faster&#x2F;smaller&#x2F;cheaper technical innovation - it will require the refinement of innovations that probably haven&#x27;t even been invented&#x2F;researched yet.<p>I can&#x27;t help but think about speech recognition 20 years ago. Many of the hot software packages claimed something like 96% accuracy, and that sounded great on paper. People thought intelligent voice-computer interfaces were just around the corner, yet here we are in 2017, and Siri&#x2F;Alexa&#x2F;Cortana are barely becoming usable (but still frustratingly lacking in many situations).