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It's well known that if the computer is handling a significant part of the task, the human will get distracted or zone out completely. The "human computer driving team" will end up being less than the sum of its parts. Airline pilots already have well established procedures to prevent this from happening when they engage the auto-pilot.

The problem is that most of those businesses don't make sense with the current cost of talent. The L2 systems OEMs are rolling out are primarily made by engineers in low-cost areas at $60-90k/yr, not $130-250k/yr in SV.

Realistically, most of the AV talent will go to industries that can afford them. Salary isn't super elastic.

The engineers in the low cost of living areas do the real work. We don’t need rockstars.

Perhaps for true self driving we’ll need one more breakthrough in AI. Perhaps a system that can identify its own edge cases and request additional training or seek out the training itself.

We need AGI or we need to ban humans from driving, pedestrians, bikers, children, deer, and anything that can disrupt a perfect computer model.