I guess it is good to strive — develop AI and deep-learning as a way to tackle piloting a car. It is presumptuous (hubris?) to expect and, worse, to pitch them as the soon ‘coming to a driverless theater near you’ way to replace the human driver. Tesla has repeatedly. Billions of brain cells multiplied by tens of thousands of synapses in each individual human brain make for more instant connections than there are stars in 20 to 40 thousand galaxies. Housed in a roundish ‘cockpit’ capable of swiveling (human head), equipped with two amazingly effective optic and ditto hearing sensors (eyes and ears) and a hard-drive full of constantly updatable tutorials, topped off by the human intuition, they enable us to split-sec reference what we see, hear and feel when driving. Hard to beat those, if ever. Want to know the other six reasons? Go to https://sevehicle.medium.com/why-the-sleek-shall-inherit-an-autonomous-earth-557c78981fa8

Personally, I think that SAE Level 5 driverless personal passenger cars will take a long time to realize. Best bet IMO: driverless out on the ‘open road’ (interstates) where all traffic on your side of the divider is going in the same direction, and an automatic switch to manual mode the moment you cross a city’s outer markers (a sort of reverse ILS), to enter the built environment.