I've always found the argument that robots will replace drivers and pilots curious, despite all the investment in automation - which started in this industry in the 1920s. Now I have a couple of autonomous vehicle industry terms for some of my thoughts: "Unconstrained left turns", ie what most of us in the left-hand drive/drive on the right-hand side of the road part of the world know as run-of-the-mill "left turns", and "edge cases". Linked article is free on apple news, seems to be behind a paywall otherwise.
Long story short, one of the scions of the industry has given up on self-driving cars (too unpredictable of an environment) and is now working on self-driving dump trucks inside mines. Paraphrasing him: "computers are really dumb".
Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere - Bloomberg