> Many people still claim that "self driving cars don't exist", in so many words, even though they are deployed in multiple cities.

But just look at the predictions of that time - cities will change, ... and so on. Sure, we have self-driving cars but the reality looks very different (and a lot more like the past!) than the pundits and futurists imagined! I'm not sure anyone will make their billions of dollars investmented back within even 20 years.

Just two random examples from ~10 years ago (2013-2016), you can google many more of that time.

* "Ford Targets Fully Autonomous Vehicle for Ride Sharing in 2021; Invests in New Tech Companies, Doubles Silicon Valley Team" [1]

* "Disruptions: How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities" [2]

[1] https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2016...

[2] https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/0...

[3] https://www.gensler.com/dialogue/30/the-game-changer-for-cit...