To be fair, there was a flurry of non-good news about autonomous cars about 2 or 3 months ago. Actual bad news, in the sense that things had been overhyped prio

To be fair, there was a flurry of non-good news about autonomous cars about 2 or 3 months ago. Actual bad news, in the sense that things had been overhyped prior. But hey, these things change fast. I have a Dreyfusian[0] prior on autonomous agents (some people think we're on the way to have robotic soccer referees) -- I'm skeptic about what currently passes for reinforcement learning, for one -- but I'm not above changing my mind. Suddenly even. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus%27s_views_on_artificial_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus%27s_views_on_ar...