Reliable artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial ingredient for the future of robot cars. Experts reckon AI problems will be solved but are less confident about legal problems.

It was onward and upwards after Google’s AlphaGo won the contest with a human in the ancient Chinese board game, Go. But thumbs down, when Microsoft’s attempt to make its so-called “chatbot” artificial intelligence experiment become smarter with experience, disintegrated into foul-mouthed abuse and ignorance, according to press reports.

Suggestions fully-autonomous robot cars are just around the corner is really hype and bluster, and although experts reckon artificial intelligence problems are solvable, they don’t expect to see these ground-breaking vehicles on public roads in any great numbers for maybe 10 years.

And there’s another underlying problem for the traditional auto industry. Will the convergence of robot cars, revolutionary approaches to mobility, and electric cars expose it to a fatal blow from high technology companies?

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