LiDAR has its own false positives that haven’t been solved, so it’s possible they believe that.

I certainly was skeptical until alphago and alphafold happened.

That's especially amusing considering how if you view Go as a visual problem, it's beyond trivial compared to what is required to safely operate a motor vehicle (even just visually).

Yikes. I'd be a lot better Go player if it was just a matter of seeing the board.

It is yikes - what's shocking is that you seem to be advocating for that same exact perspective for... driving a car???

Nope. There's definitely mapping, and then, much, much more. You're stuffing words in my mouth.

Not sure if I'm stuffing so much as removing the bluster

Ad hominem, but no content.

There's a new article showing up just today at HN detailing more issues securing supply lines (for libraries and much more) re software; it's a deep problem, not a non-existant problem. But it doesn't have to be malicious actors at work. SpaceX lost a rocket because a supplier's product wasn't built to spec. SpaceX makes that part themselves now, and highly favors vertical integration, which just means making your own sh*t. Just maintaining documentation is a bear. There's another article on HN today detailing an Air Astana near crash because of "improvement" maintenance changes (with poor documentaion) that went very badly wrong.