Another panel wonders when self-driving cars will finally arrive

EE Times Europe hosted a panel of industry experts to discuss the elusive milestones toward Level 4 autonomous driving. Speakers from Yole, Volvo, and other firms pondered the familiar hurdles: handling rare edge cases, achieving reliable sensing, maintaining software over 15-year-old hardware, and meeting stringent ASIL-D safety standards.

The conversation highlights the perpetual gap between bold industry promises and the hard reality of deploying technology that must be fail-safe. The roadmap suggests we're still a decade away from meaningful Level 4 deployments, with the fundamental question remaining: can you trust a system that can't explain its decisions? It's the same old song, just on a newer stage.