You would think that a reasonable project plan would attack the human safety/emergency situations first, and then move on to anything else. I guess having a car

You would think that a reasonable project plan would attack the human safety/emergency situations first, and then move on to anything else. I guess having a car that avoids accidents but doesn't drive across the country on its own does not make for interesting headlines. This is the consequence of headlines-driven AI... "lets solve something hokey and grabs attention so management will be pleased instead of doing the more meaningful/long term r&d."