What would be the point of expressing more skepticism?
Like you, I'm very skeptical that we'll get self-driving cars any time soon, and somewhat skeptical that we'll get them in my lifetime. But what would be the point of expressing skepticism here?
I'm not investing my money on it, and I'd be annoyed if significant amounts of public money were being dolled out for it, but if Google and others want to spend a few billions investing on AI instead of funding a few yachts for their shareholders, I'm all for it. And like you pointed out, if anything self-driving cars will be held to an higher standard in terms of security, so I don't see a problem there either.
There was an article recently saying how people bought lottery tickets to justify dreaming big about their possibilities. If Google wants to pay for our ticket, I'm not complaining.
(By the way, I say this as a layman. If I was an expert on, say, LIDAR and I had a specific criticism that hadn't previously been raised, I'd speak about it.)
Like you, I'm very skeptical that we'll get self-driving cars any time soon, and somewhat skeptical that we'll get them in my lifetime. But what would be the point of expressing skepticism here?
I'm not investing my money on it, and I'd be annoyed if significant amounts of public money were being dolled out for it, but if Google and others want to spend a few billions investing on AI instead of funding a few yachts for their shareholders, I'm all for it. And like you pointed out, if anything self-driving cars will be held to an higher standard in terms of security, so I don't see a problem there either.
There was an article recently saying how people bought lottery tickets to justify dreaming big about their possibilities. If Google wants to pay for our ticket, I'm not complaining.
(By the way, I say this as a layman. If I was an expert on, say, LIDAR and I had a specific criticism that hadn't previously been raised, I'd speak about it.)