> Instead, the consensus has become that we’re at least 10 years away from self-driving cars.

I'm going to assume the founder of a self-driving truck company knows what he's talking about.

But at the same time, I have a hard time reconciling that with the fact that I sat in a car that drove itself all around San Francisco, dealing with a ton of edge cases.

Maybe we won't get to a 100% drive-anywhere-you-want-car in 10 years, but to be fair, a lot of humans aren't capable of driving a car anywhere either.

There are a lot of LA drivers who can't drive in snow, for example. I was one of them, until I got practice, and even then, I'm not that safe at it.

I think as long as we set the bar at "drive anywhere a car can go with 100% safety" we will never reach that bar.

But if the bar is at "drive as well as a human in most of the places humans drive", well, I've already seen a car that can do that.