content: For industrial stuff in particular I'd expect the entire goal is to completely remove the human from the picture as quickly as possible. It'll be pitched as human assistance to avoid backlash, but that's going to last about as long as just the tip. But beyond that there's a couple of other things:   Google discovered, unsurprisingly, that humans are pretty much useless when going from a disconnected state to being expected to be able to make decisions in a scenario where milliseconds matter. The whole idea was that humans would be able to be more comfortable and rested while maintaining situational awareness, but that's just not realistic.   It's not needed. Humans were mostly being used as a patch because of a problem with self driving cars. It's been relatively easy to get from 0 to 99%. But getting from that 99% to 99.999% where you'd really want them to be is taking an enormous amount of work. 'Let the human solve it' was just a lazy fix. There's no inherent issue with it - it will just take time and research, whereas companies would rather be selling the tech today, not a year from today.