> To be fair, that was the state of speech recognition, too, until it wasn’t. I regularly yell at Google when I ask it to play me a song, oftentimes even when

> To be fair, that was the state of speech recognition, too, until it wasn’t. I regularly yell at Google when I ask it to play me a song, oftentimes even when I spell out words letter by letter, painstakingly slowly, and it still fails me. Speech recognition doesn't work all that well for me. Anyway, I think nuclear fusion is a much better comparison. There is an inflection point where it just works, and until you reach that it's not really useful to anybody except as a research problem. And based on what I hear from my peers who work on self-driving cars (including at Cruise), it's still decades away. Most of them already quit because they just stopped believing it was ever going to happen.