Schmidhuber: self-driving cars since 1994 still unsolved — physical AI is a slow game
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-23
Schmidhuber argued that self-driving cars are "very simple robots" with only 2 degrees of freedom, and that Dickmanns had truly self-driving cars in traffic back in 1994. Yet 32 years later the problem remains unsolved — his takeaway: physical AI is a slow game, and embodied intelligence will mature far more slowly than software.
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