The solution is much farther off than Google would like you to believe. As in, we'll be lucky if driverless cars become feasible before fusion becomes commercially viable.
I've worked on autonomous cars, and no, I am not a crank. I could go into technical reasons why this is nowhere near ready, but there is no need. The onus is on Google to prove that they have the technology (or that it will arrive soon), and proof has not been forthcoming. I'm not even claiming that Google is claiming that autonomous cars are almost here--I am saying that people should take their carefully controlled demos with a grain of salt.
