One thing you can bet on is that virtually every carmaker is over-hyping their technology. Expect "Level 5" tech to be more like Level 4, "Level 4" to be more l

One thing you can bet on is that virtually every carmaker is over-hyping their technology. Expect "Level 5" tech to be more like Level 4, "Level 4" to be more like Level 3, and so on. I don't even know how they can even claim Level 5 (looking at you Nvidia) when their systems don't involve real-time training, but just do inferencing. I'm talking machine learning training not "it's gathering data as it drives training". You know what that means - it means the cars's autonomous systems need to have been trained for the roads on which they are driving or at least for those conditions ahead of time, somewhere in the cloud. But Level 5 is supposed to work on ANY ROAD ANY TIME. I doubt they have already trained their systems for ANY ROAD ANY TIME and anywhere in the world. That seems very unlikely to me. In other words, Nvidia, and Tesla, and whoever else is promising Level 5 autonomy is lying to you. And because of this stupidity and greed, the government will probably have to come up with Level 6 and Level 7 in the future, to designate to Level 7 what Level 5 should have been from the beginning. Think about how the US carriers started abusing the "4G" marketing in the early years. I very much expect the same to happen with self-driving cars, all for the sake of misleading marketing. I also believe none of these players take software security that seriously. Some will at least implement the best practices, but won't go beyond that, most probably won't even do that (Google how stupid carmakers are being about remotely unlocking their doors over the internet for instance...). Unfortunately, this won't be noticed until maybe 7-10 years after millions of these cars are deployed. And then the hacks will start coming (including terrorist attacks using them).