Why deep learning won't give us level 5 self-driving cars – IAM Network

Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes the basic functionality of level 5 self-driving cars will be completed by the end of 2020. "I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level 5 autonomy complete this year." Musk's remarks triggered much discussion in the media about whether we are close to having full self-driving cars on our roads. Like many other software engineers, I don't think we'll be seeing driverless cars (I mean cars that don't have human drivers) any time soon, let alone the end of this year. I wrote a column about this on PCMag, and received a lot of feedback (both positive and negative).