All the attention on driverless cars is a distraction. It's a lot of technonurd jacking off in cyberspace and won't really happen in the foreseeable future. There are many problems to be solved. Google and others talk like solutions are around the corner. I don't think so. They've solved the easiest problems and left the hard ones.

Google self-driving car: It may never actually happen.
Why We'll Never Have Driverless Cars
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