"the state-of-the-art in computer vision has moved so significantly that it’s arguably now not the primary blocker to commercial deployment of self-driving cars

"the state-of-the-art in computer vision has moved so significantly that it’s arguably now not the primary blocker to commercial deployment of self-driving cars." The state of the art in machine perception is still far from human level perception, regardless of how quickly progress has been made. Prediction is a function of perception, so it's also bottlenecked on perception getting better. Let's not confuse recruitment-oriented blogposts with credible scientific writing.