humans will settle Mars soon.
-Not happening. Primarily due to radiation and general life support problems.
driverless cars are just around the corner.
-No they are not for various, obvious technical reasons that should be apparent to anybody who both understands technology and the real world of driving.
solar power is inevitable and will be widespread and cheap
-solar power will always be lower energy density than chemical power or nuclear power. It will always have higher fixed costs per unit generated than large scale hydro. Solar takes a lot of space and is expensive to produce low density power.
Battery power electric cars are going to be in broad demand by consumers soon.
-I doubt it. Range is limited. Battery technology has not advanced significantly in the past decade. I think more widespread public transportation (e.g. trains) is more likely as hydrocarbon fuels become more expensive.
Run away global warming is inevitable or it is a human tractable problem that we can solve by spending money on new technologies.
-It is actually really complicated. There are very complicated feedback loops at work. It is not as simple as more CO2 in the atmosphere higher temperatures. For one thing as CO2 concentrations increase plants grow faster and turn more CO2 into solid compounds. Ditto for temperatures. Additionally there is a tragedy of the commons effect about CO2 emissions.
The Earth has had much higher CO2 in the past and life has survived and often thrived. Also sometimes CO2 did increase rapidly such as when there were massive flood basalt eruptions for example.
I could go on on topics the media gets wrong...