That's what we all initially thought, but with a decade and a half of constant engineering effort and tens (maybe hundreds) of billions of dollars poured into the space with basically nothing to show for it, I wonder how true that assessment still is.
The cars are driving themselves, how is that nothing to show? Ultimately self driving will allow smaller buses and improve the pedestrian experience that way.
> The cars are driving themselves
According to the very article being discussed no, they are not.