Woah. I&#x27;m not quite sure where the negative sentiment came from - I&#x27;m not trying to discount anyone&#x27;s work, and there&#x27;s definitely no ignorance. Maybe I&#x27;m not optimistic, but I&#x27;m definitely not being ignorant.<p>&gt; Self driving cars technology is AI. It is an advancement<p>If you go back up the comment chain that I was replying to, you&#x27;ll note that I don&#x27;t dispute (or even talk about) whether self driving cars is AI or not - I don&#x27;t really care to take part of that conversation.<p>I was commenting on whether if you put self driving tech in trucks if it &#x27;can only&#x27; self-drive on the highways, and require human drivers to drive the final mile, is that a significant enough improvement to make it worthwhile deploying it?<p>I know we&#x27;ve made a significant amount of progress when it comes to this sort of stuff, but we&#x27;re so much further away from the dream of ubiquitous self driving cars (or even where human-driven cars are illegal or have their own financial&#x2F;legal drawbacks). I know (Google&#x27;s) self driving cars have driven x-thousand miles, which is crazy impressive, but they&#x27;ve only done that on like .1% of US roads[0]. They also have trouble driving in varying conditions, like rain or construction or whatever. I can&#x27;t see ubiquitous self driving cars for consumers really happening in the next 20-50 years.<p>I can see, however, this bits and pieces of this tech make its way into cars (like Tesla&#x27;s autopilot, or the self-parking features) a lot sooner than that. Or into trucks driving down the highway. And then Uber&#x2F;GM&#x2F;whoever launches self-driving transport in select cities on select routes, and then all over the city, and then in every main city.<p>[0] Totally made up number, but I assume you&#x27;ll get my point.