[Eidolon]

Honestly, all this talk about how everything is going to change in the next 10-15 years is pretty damn utopian and shows that the authors might be more than a little optimistic in their timetables. We are talking about a 30 year transformation at the very least with regards to achieving widespread autonomous cars due to the fact that people and companies won't just throw out all their non-robotic vehicles because they have a lifespan of +20 years with regards to things like trucks. Also, much of the stuff the authors of those articles claim (powering everything with renewables for example) is flat out unachievable due to the need to spend trillions revamping the existing power grid infrastructure, not to mention that there will be massive opposition from fossil fuel interests (including literally dozens of countries that function as petro-states) and their trillions, nuclear power interests and their promoters and so on.

It might sound nice, but any claims that some technology will "change everything," and do it soon, needs to be taken with a fistfull of salt and a healthy dose of skepticism.