Self-DrivingPartially correct
“A shuttle/bus that can only drive one bus route or just in a small region is the more promising goal: "I hope we'll have a large number of vehicles on roads within 3 years, and be mass producing them in 5."”
Chief Scientist, Baidu Research; founder of Google Brain
Said Feb 3, 2016Deadline Dec 31, 2021Andrew Ng, Quora answer to "When will self-driving cars be on roads?", reported in David Silver, "Andrew Ng on Self-Driving Cars", Medium / Self-Driving Cars, February 3, 2016
Limited series production did begin — Baidu and King Long rolled the 100th Apolong autonomous minibus off the line in July 2018, and Navya, EasyMile and Local Motors built shuttles in small series — but by the end of 2021 there was no large number of driverless shuttles on public roads and nothing resembling mass production: deployments stayed at pilot scale with onboard attendants, US regulators suspended EasyMile passenger operations after a 2020 injury, and Local Motors shut down in January 2022.