All those subjects are useful. Some version of all those things will appear in the good systems. But it's the difference between building the flight control system for a toy drone and the flight control system for a Boeing 797. You need the "failure is not an option" attitude of aerospace. You need fault tree analysis. What if sensors disagree? What if a sensor is misaligned because someone bumped the vehicle while it was parked? You need enough of an organization to have people working through all those situations. You don't get to blame the user for your mistakes. A "minimum viable product" will kill.

Self-driving is something many people in software haven't seen much - software that isn't feature-oriented. As someone from Google pointed out, the output is just two numbers.