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No.

And that is why i dislike the term "self-driving".

It makes people think "driverless", which "full self-driving" is not.

If it can get you from A to B without any human input, is the driver not a safety technicality at that point?

What term would you prefer to describe a car that can get you from A to B without your input?

I think full self driving will remain two years away for a decade at least.

Based on...?

Several things. Mostly that it has to be rolled out slowly because people lives are at stake so testing can run for quite a bit longer than you’d expect. Also that everyone wants to be the one who makes the breakthrough so companies will claim its right around the corner (like fusion) repetitively, i.e. Tesla saying it’d be here in 2018. We’re just at a point where these things can use parking lots so I wouldn’t expect a complete rollout several years as systems are built on top of other systems that have been widely tested and confirmed to work.

They will continue to move their goalposts. It's never enough for the self-professed "cynics" of AI.