Part 5 of Time For a Map, featuring William “Red” Whittaker, roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, explaining the technology behind driverless cars.
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Big Picture Science – Time For a Map: Driverless Cars
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Well, driverless cars would have to be much much safer than people for them to be practical. I think if they were only slightly safer, it wouldn’t really take off.
Personally, you can aren’t going to replace any of my cars with driverless cars, you can take my classic cars away from me when you pry my cold dead corpse from the driver’s seat.