♦ 12 ♦Your Own Private Driver: Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Planes
In a popular children’s book called If I Built a Car, a fanciful fledgling engineer (who is probably about ten) waxes enthusiastically about designing a car that houses an onboard swimming pool, makes milk shakes, and can both fly and dive under water.94 Of course, the car has a robot driver that can take over if the humans need a snooze.
We aren’t getting cars that can make milk shakes or are big enough to house a decent-sized swimming pool, and flying cars remain a couple of decades away. But our robot drivers are here.
There are debates in mainstream media over whether driverless cars will ever be adopted and whether we can trust our lives to machines. A survey by the ...
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