In the 1980s I worked on applications of speech recognition. I worked mainly with Dragon Systems technologies. They were the best and it was pretty awful. It didn't get better all of a sudden. It was a multi decade grind. That's actually how major innovation happens.
To paraphrase Hemingway, every major innovation happens in two ways: gradually, then suddenly.
In the 1980s I worked on applications of speech recognition. I worked mainly with Dragon Systems technologies. They were the best and it was pretty awful. It didn't get better all of a sudden. It was a multi decade grind. That's actually how major innovation happens.
By Jove, you're right! Autonomous driving will happen like flying cars, or fusion power did!