To be clear, many of the things you just mentioned are feature engineering-related and don't have much to do with ML. Car construction/modification research is

To be clear, many of the things you just mentioned are feature engineering-related and don't have much to do with ML. Car construction/modification research is going on. It's what car companies are doing... Driving is not a valid analogy because by that logic AI was democratized 10 years ago because everyone "uses" Google search.