I have been saying for years that full self driving is extremely unlikely to be developed any time in the near future because it is simply too hard of a problem

I have been saying for years that full self driving is extremely unlikely to be developed any time in the near future because it is simply too hard of a problem for any reasonable near-future extension of currently available technology. I am gratified to see that the conventional wisdom has recently come to also see things that way. I am not surprised that journalists bought the hype - I assume that half of them have no idea what they are writing about and/or are just advertisers in disguise. But it does surprise me that so many experienced corporate professionals and investors got taken in. I guess maybe part of it is that they just are not as smart as I once thought they were and maybe another part of it is that some of them used the hype to grab a bunch of cash with both hands, cash that the people who put it up will now never see again.