I didn't read the linked article.
But slowing down a tech by the existing players doing a slow, incremental approach doesn't sound like it will work.
There's too much investment money that will
finance just
about any unlikely idea, even if there's no obvious way it will
ever pay off.
Self driving cars probably still can't drive in snow or even in heavy rain, and mostly are in areas that have been mapped and scanned in great detail. But google is ramping up
Waymo car access to the general public in Arizona.