I absolutely disagree. Self-driving cars are complex, but not unmanageable. > What people don't realize is that full autonomous driving will require more than

I absolutely disagree. Self-driving cars are complex, but not unmanageable. > What people don't realize is that full autonomous driving will require more than just faster/smaller/cheaper technical innovation - it will require the refinement of innovations that probably haven't even been invented/researched yet. Like what? Object detection/recognition? Better sensors? Path/trajectory prediction? Vehicle control? Sensors and processing/unifying their data? The hardest part is letting all these building work together, and then produce a mass-production product from it, but we do have the base technologies, companies like Google, Tesla and Volvo have proven already that. The problem comes down to software, and Toyota has the problem that it's a hardware-focused company. In the car-industry, just like in any industry, software will become more and more important, and Toyota - just like many other car-companies - simply doesn't have an answer here since they don't understand it.