'self driving' really means the vehicle is being controlled by outside entities who have created technology that enables navigation.

This article is very opaque on how mature this is. The vehicles are the 'last mile' and from everything I've read we are a long way from Level 5 mass market maturity. everything else seems to require you to be able to reflexively grab the wheel and use the pedals at any moment if something goes wrong...

Useful article about Toyota's Gill Pratt on realities https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...