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@clacke @PhilSalkie Autonomous vehicles in closed environments like rails or tunnels are completely plausible, but I don't see them ever being viable in the general case especially in the kind of lower density / rural areas I spend a lot of my time in.

Last time we had a major snow storm, the public works department ran out of road-closed signs to block off all of the steep hills they lacked the manpower to plow. There's zero chance of them ever getting the resources needed to make and maintain robot-readable markings everywhere.

What we're going to get in the meantime is half-baked solutions made by the same people who think LLMs are going to replace human writers and scientists and who knows what else.

And who are running it all on hardware built by the lowest bidder without any effort put into reliability.

It is indeed "move fast and break things". The cars are moving fast and they're breaking things.