unless you torture the definition of self-driving vehicle to mean limited driving capability on highly altered 'smart streets' or whatever, yes it's absolutely true.

As the article points out, ML is fundamentally way too brittle to deal with the long tail of issues that humans solve through common sense reasoning.

We're like two or three paradigm shifts in AI away from having anything that solves open ended, problems in uncontrolled environments without glitching out like a Roomba.