Despite Tesla's 'Autopilot,' and other misleading names of semi-autonomous systems, mainstream self-driving cars do not exist yet. Believing otherwise is simply dangerous and we have already seen accidents caused by drivers' overconfidence in such systems. A drunk driver in California even told police he shouldn't be charged with a DUI because his Tesla Model 3 was operating on Autopilot.

Clearly, some people do not understand the limitations of semi-autonomous technology, which is why tech companies would like to place added barriers to it. While we agree that autonomous cars need to have limits, a recent patent filing by Chinese tech company Huawei is certainly not what we had in mind.