There are a lot of hills to climb and a few left turns to navigate before self-driving cars are truly roadworthy. It would be negligent to ignore the impressive strides the technology has achieved so far, but it would also be foolish to ignore the uncritical praise self-driving has received.
Pete Buttigieg, the current Secretary of the Department of Transportation, butted heads with Musk in the past He has an axe to grind with the self- driving industry.
"It feels like the widespread use of self driving is seven years away, and it's been seven years away for 10 years," said Buttigieg. Will it be seven years from now or 10 years from now?
There is a valid point to be raised. It feels like the industry has been saying for a long time that it is on the verge of a breakthrough. Musk, who's promised fully self-driving cars for the past decade, is the biggest culprit of this type of water carrying.
Many accounts of crashes involving the technology have been written off as casualties of progress.
"There is a very serious danger in this valley of death between where we started and where we are headed, where these technologies do run the risk of making things worse," Buttigieg said.
The technology's potential threat to the safety of drivers has been noticed by the feds. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration launched an official investigation into "Autopilot" last year.
Buttigieg doesn't care what the tech is called, he's more interested in the bigger picture.
"Just to be clear, I don't care what they call these things, autopilot or self-driving or whatever, there is no car that you can buy today from a dealer where you don't have to be paying attention at all times when you're driving," Butt
He should tell the drivers of the electric car company that they can drive themselves.
Scientists propose putting giant eyes on self- driving cars.
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