That's exactly what I think will be the future: AI-assisted cars, not AI-driving cars. But I don't think it will progress beyond that, for the simple fact that

That's exactly what I think will be the future: AI-assisted cars, not AI-driving cars. But I don't think it will progress beyond that, for the simple fact that I think it's either all or nothing. You cannot build a car that drives itself sometimes, but still needs someone to take the wheel every now and then. People will stop paying attention to driving which will inevitably lead to accidents when they have to take over from the AI. It more or less defeats the purpose of a 'car that drives itself' anyway. Don't get me wrong by the way, I'm not 'against self-driving cars' or anything, I simply think it can't be done. Not unless we replace all road infrastructure with something that supports autonomous vehicles, and introduce some form of centralized traffic control, ie: more like air traffic.