re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They were uber-optimistic.

Self-driving trucks will be a thing by the end of the decade, cars will follow, at which point two major employment categories will have been all but eliminated, currently around 4.5 million in total

If that was so—10 years to deployment—we’d see self-driving in actual use somewhere, and it would be more advanced than what Tesla is doing in production cars. Elon would be chauffeured by a Level 5 Tesla. Even if it were just rumored, it would be an advance.

If fully autonomous vehicles are nearly here, why didn’t they drive the ISS astronauts to the launch pad last week? Elon makes a show of driving them in Tesla Roadsters, but they used human drivers. For that matter, why not try the technology in the new tunnel system now under Las Vegas? Even the rumors of such would say something.