Autonomous Fiction

The debate on self-driving cars is as lively as ever. Tesla bulls believe it is just a software update away and they keep shelling out $10k for the option to have it one day... But the day is yet to come. Bears call it a scam. The truth is this [self driving] problem turns out to be much harder than initially thought.

Waymo, which is considered to be the most advanced on the road to full autonomy, admits its struggle. John Krafcik admitted this back in January and just this week he stepped down.

There are voices now saying self-driving is just an inherently difficult problem. And the fate of Waymo, Tesla and others just confirms this. I could not agree more. As I wrote back in 2019, even when we have a car capable of self driving on every street in California, this does not prove anything.

I think Elon Musk knows all that. After all he is a very intelligent guy. So if he does, all these stories about Tesla Level 5 autonomy are simply lies. I wonder why is he doing that? Fame and fortune again prevents one from being honest?