>>512825977 (OP)>What the hell is USA spending all these trillions on?Automated driving "works" in that it is probably 95 to 98% "there". It functions, it does what it needs to, it can get people or things from one place to another. The problem is not with that, the problem is with that 2-5% margin of error. If you put 100,000 self-driving 18-wheeler trucks on the road, 2% of that is 2000 fucking trucks that will have accidents, and probably kill a very significant number of people
Companies in America don't want to shoulder the legal liability burden for that because if you invested in automating your fleet, and then you kill one or more people with the automated truck you put on the road, you're fucked forever. China very likely wouldn't have this problem, because it's a fake country where everything in it is just endlessly nesting scams and crimes that either defraud or destroy other people. So if 2000 trucks in China all had accidents and kill people, they're probably consider that pretty solid margins and do it anyway because their people are worthless and disposable and there's no such thing a legal liability in China.