LAS VEGAS — The cab driver’s seat started buzzing. The vibration was strong enough, I could feel it in my feet
“It’s that stupid sensor that tells me I’m too close to the car in front of me. I try to ignore it,” he told me
That “stupid sensor” went off a couple more times during our brief ride and, as promised, the diver ignored it. But what if he couldn’t? What if the car was fully in control, totally autonomous?
Ever since I arrived at CES 2015 in Las Vegas, I’ve been thinking about our driverless-car future. I rode a self-driving car around the streets of Las Vegas. It was an awesomely weird experience. I talked to Ford CEO Mark Fields about it. I saw a Mercedez-Benz autonomous concept car worthy of George Jetson (there was even an Audi 7 that drove itself from San Francisco to Las Vegas) and got an inside look at how technology is turning our current and future cars into more self-aware and ever-helpful vehicles. Read more...
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