On: Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere

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My gut feeling is that we'll solve AGI before we solve the niche case of fully autonomous vehicles.

AGI is a generalization and super set of self driving cars and has a far wider impact and set of people researching it.

The two problems seem equivalently hard in that fully autonomous vehicles must be five nines (?) reliably safe. That's a ridiculously hard problem.