Review: Joanne McNeil's "Wrong Way" Takes the Shine Off the Self-Driving Car

Car companies have been experimenting with driverless cars for decades, but their presence on roads has exploded in recent years. It became increasingly common, beginning in the twenty-tens, to see robo-taxi prototypes driving around on public streets, albeit with human "safety drivers" sitting inside, ready to take over and compensate for machine error. Then the safety drivers started vanishing. Since last year, it has been possible to hail fully driverless taxis in Phoenix. Earlier this year, they hit the streets in San Francisco, and rollouts are planned in many other major American cities.