Robot car lobby wants humans off the road
US regulators have given driverless cars the green light: the next step is a driverless road
New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driver.
While banning people from driving may seem like something from a Kurt Vonnegut short story, it’s the logical endgame of a technology that could dramatically reduce – or even eliminate – the 1.25 million road deaths a year globally. Human error is ...