There have been self driving vehicles in well constrained areas since the 90s or even earlier. They have been capable of complex route navigation, obstacle avoi

There have been self driving vehicles in well constrained areas since the 90s or even earlier. They have been capable of complex route navigation, obstacle avoidance and responding to a variety of conditions. The technology hasn't really matured an order of magnitude past the automated vehicles that have been moving things around in factories for decades. The technology improvement has come in computing power and sensor tech where now it's just cheaper and easier to include this in more vehicles. There need to be major leaps before this can really become widespread. I would say at best we are at the Commodore 64 era of self driving cars. I think it's going to take even longer to get to the iphone era considering the result of failure could be death.