While the article doesn&#x27;t actually use the word &quot;never&quot;, neither does it hedge and say &quot;anytime soon&quot;.<p>The central logic seems to be that humanity is starting from scratch building self driving cars, versus all the years of experience decades ago trying to automate spacecraft and submersibles.<p>Oddly, I reach entirely the opposite conclusion. The article reminds us that even decades ago, with rudimentary computers, engineers developed systems that landed men on the moon and returned them to earth.<p>This article has made it even easier for me to imagine a car taking a fully autonomous trip to a McDonald&#x27;s drive through, 
given the state of deep&#x2F;machine learning, low cost computers a million times faster, and big advances in sensors, 
Yes there will be a person supervising the car for a while, of course that&#x27;s true. But it&#x27;s only a matter of time before our children are surprised that humans were allowed to drive cars, causing millions of deaths.