> Self-driving vehicles are the perfect example of how something that seems so close can be so far away.

Remember that this was before transformers, LLMs, and more recently VLM/VLAMs, though.

I'm not sure to what extent these are already integrated in self-driving hardware, but I would not be surprised if we see a big improvement in self-driving due to related technologies soon, especially with the smaller models becoming far more (efficient and) potent.