The evolution of autonomous vehicles illustrates to what extent many people, including any number of experts, do not understand technological development cycles, and get things seriously wrong.
Click on this link, read the story and watch the video. It is from December 2018, a little less than a year ago, and chronicles the first trip in Waymo One, the autonomous vehicle transportation service created by the Alphabet subsidiary in Phoenix, Arizona, written by Andrew J. Hawkins, a journalist from The Verge. Journalists tend to cover these kinds of events better than the companies’ press releases, which tend to be a bit too idealistic and perfect.
Now click on this link, and again you will find a story and a video. On this occasion, the news is from four days ago, is written by Ed Niedermeyer for TechCrunch, and is pretty much identical, except for one detail: the security driver, who in the 2018 video was at the wheel of the vehicle, ready to take control if necessary, has gone. The story is by an experienced TechCrunch journalist, it is not a press release nor an ad designed to impress us. The video shows the vehicle in traffic, surrounded by vehicles driven by clumsy humans. It is as real as a good journalist can make it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2019/11/04/how-reality-has-exceeded-our-expectations-about-self-driving-vehicles/#3e4a450a41ba
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