Prepare to be Underwhelmed by 2021’s Autonomous Cars

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6. The whole thing is a gigantic con. They are all just trying to match Elon Musk

but you can't con the best con man since PT Barnum.

What will be possible is automatic steering on limited access highways on very well mapped sections. But by 2020, these cars won't even be able to handle common situations, such as cone zones, blizzards, new pavement with missing or ambiguous lines, or a cop trying to poll over the autonomous car.

True do-anything, go-anywhere, no-driver-ever-required cars will not happen before 2035 at the earliest. In reality, it is more likely that true driverless cars won't happen until we implement substantially new modes of transit with significant infrastructure put into place to manage the traffic flow.