In the past few years there were leaps so gigantic in the field of Computer Vision that they could be said to have happened overnight within the general pace of electronic technological development; within an eye's blink in the general scheme of things.

This made us so, so cocky. And man, if it's that easy to make a website that opens a webcam and tell you your gender and age to a remarkable degree of accuracy, surely self driving (or even playing Mario Kart well) must be within the next two breaths, right?