I would expect full self-driving to come through remote operation capability - at first a single person can remotely operate one vehicle. After some improvements it would be possible for a single operator to control 2 vehicles and so on.
> Anything that happens after the end of an individual’s reproductive years (perhaps also the period of raising the offsprings) stops exerting any evolutionary pressure.
This is definitely wrong. Individuals (e.g. grandparents or just random society members) can influence survival rates of other society members.
Some species(e.g. ants) even have sterile members that definitely exert evolutionary pressure.
Reporter was claiming that warehouse was freezing cold to keep electronics of robots cool. It's total nonsense. These robots probably emit less heat than regular forklifts.
The only reason for the freezing temperatures is to keep foodstuff fresh.
Also datacenters underground is only a marketing trick (we keep you servers in a bunker). If anything it only complicates getting rid of extra heat (eg. problems with London underground [1] )