I think you could reasonably think self driving cars exist today, or at least driverless ones with only minimal outside control by humans during the actual driv

I think you could reasonably think self driving cars exist today, or at least driverless ones with only minimal outside control by humans during the actual drive, because self driving taxi services do exist, though only in well-mapped geofenced areas, and I would not be surprised if they drove all the routes with a test driver first. If they are fake, it's very convincing, as it's clearly not just someone with a TV and game controller a few miles away. A computer is clearly controlling the path of the car without human input for seconds at a time.