Accelerate the World's Transition to Sustainable Energy - to fight Anthropogenic Climate Change, page-542

I have stated before my belief that EVs are just an important first step towards autonomous transportation (hence last night's post about Tesla's FSD beta9 release).

Whilst I am a strong proponent of autonomous driving, the following article takes a different view:

https://themobilist.medium.com/self-driving-cars-self-driving-bullets-955dfd2c5150

I guess there are two key questions:

Firstly, is the timeline to autonomous driving - how long will it actually take? Will it ever become a reality?

Secondly, assuming that it does happen, what will this mean for life as we know it - a peripheral impact or a major inflection point for road transportation and as a consequence the broader [global] economy.

I am interested in people's thoughts!