People get excited about autonomous vehicles (I mean truly autonomous, i.e. level 5). Some get anxious (they think they’ll lose their jobs). But the thing is we aren’t getting anywhere near true autonomy in the sense that we’ll be loading a truck and expect it to go unsupervised to deliver something. Not any time soon, that is.
Hubert Dreyfus (1929-2017) was a philosopher who dealt with artificial intelligence (in the sense of making a computer who can think and act like a human, not in today’s sense of probability modelling). In his 1986 book “Mind over machine” he explains why computers can’t achieve level 5 autonomy (not in these words, of course). His explanation still holds today.
When you take the driver out of that cabin, the vehicle then has to deal with the reality of the world. The real world is a hard place for computers.