Dr Damon:
You will not be yawning soon fella. You mouth will be wide open in surprise.
Like a lot of others on here I feel you are unaware of the recent advancement of technology for transport possibly because it is not in the news everyday and the average joe bloggs is totally unaware for sure.
It is happening and a lot sooner than some think.
I am fully aware. I am aware that it currently does not work in snow or fog or very heavy rain and that there have been several occasions where it has come a cropper when there have been obscured road markings and things like temporary roadworks where traffic hasn’t behaved as per its algorithms and there have been accidents.
I am also fully aware that the truck trials have taken place in Nevada where the roads are long, straight, quite empty and the weather is usually sunny.
But unlike you it seems I actually understood the article. nVidia have created a specialised computer which is aimed at level 5 autonomy. What it hasn’t done is create reliable sensors and as equally if not more important, software which is able to drive a vehicle better than a human being. All that has happened here is that a company has produced a computer more compact than the systems currently being used in the trials, something which was always bound to happen but not something that progresses level 5 autonomy in a country such as ours.
Will it get there? Yes but not for a decade at least for this country.