> everybody thought we’d have self driving on the road within a decade.

This is just not true. My reaction to the second challenge race (not the first) in 2005 was, it was a 0-to-1 kind of moment and robocars were now coming, but the timescale was not at all clear. Yes you could find hype and blithe overoptimism, and it's convenient to round that off to "everybody" when that's the picture you want to paint.

> 20 years later that’s still not the case

Also false. Waymo in public operation and expanding.