Current language models (misnomered as “AI”) are great at some things but fail at any real thinking.
Self-Driving works decently in predictable environments but anything outside of those limits can make it literally crash and burn.
Public road transportation by individuals just has too many cases where real decision-making is required.
Despite all their resources, I think they’ve given up. All the brilliant engineers and scientists have given up, because they know what we’ve suspected for a long time.


And yet they still can’t move the car during an emergency.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/next-level-dystopian-waymo-robotaxi-150000054.html
Maybe the overseas driver was on lunch break.