Are autonomous vehicles still a utopian dream?
An autonomous car in Arizona was involved in a fatal crash. Permits for pilot projects in the autonomous vehicle (AV) space have been revoked. Automaker executives are sharply revising their forecasts—extending the timeline—for autonomous cars to hit the retail market in significant numbers. Regulators from municipalities to supergovernments such as the EU continue to grapple with the thorny challenges that robot-drive automobiles provide. Indeed, it appears that autonomous cars are nothing more than a blur on a distant horizon, a horizon that seems to be racing away from us rather than drawing closer these days.