Fully autonomous vehicles are a ways off, robots not so much

A camera system to collect data and advance self-driving car technology developed by Toyota's subsidiary Woven Planet is seen atop an autonomous test vehicle in San Francisco Bay Area, US. — Woven Planet/Handout via Reuters

The personal self-driving car is still probably several decades away, even though the autonomous vehicle space continues to move forward with large advancements, experts speculate.

“I think the classic question everyone asks is, ‘When?’” remarked Mark Rosekind, chief safety innovation officer at Zoox, an autonomous vehicle technology company developing AVs for ride-hailing use cases in urban environments.