On the other hand, I believe we did see exponential growth in our ability to both automatically drive cars, to automatically translate text, and in voice recogn

On the other hand, I believe we did see exponential growth in our ability to both automatically drive cars, to automatically translate text, and in voice recognition. If we consider 1958 to be a good starting point for self-driving cars (http://technologizer.com/2010/10/09/google-self-driving-cars/ http://technologizer.com/2010/10/09/google-self-driving-cars...), might we say that Google's car is orders of magnitude more powerful than those of 1986? If we consider 1954 a starting point for machine translation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_machine_translation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_machine_translation), again might we find that Google Translate is similarly in a different league than SYSTRAN of the 1980s? I do not really have the knowledge and sources to back those claims up, so I have to frame them as opinions for now. Could someone with experiences or deeper knowledge about these areas weigh in?