[dandellion]

> When it comes to self-driving at 25mph without traffic, it pretty much is a solved problem.

So is untangling an untangled sewing machine. Did you pick the worse possible example on purpose?

[Dylan16807]

You seem to have missed why I said that. Let me try to reword.

Being able to go as slow as you want with no outside interference makes most problems a lot easier.

It's not an analogy, it's literal. Untangling has that huge huge benefit, self-driving doesn't.

It's the low-pressure version of self-driving that potentially looks like an easier problem. And that version is solved, so that undermines the argument of "this easier thing isn't solved after tons of effort, so what makes you think your thing would get solved in 20 years".

High-pressure self-driving doesn't look like it's easier than untangling. So it being unsolved isn't really evidence for anything.