Save Lives With Slower Streets--Not Self-Driving Cars

The timelines for autonomous vehicles keep shifting. Electric carmaker Tesla began selling a $3,000 "full self-driving" add-on to its Autopilot feature in 2016--everything you need to drive without driving!--but In 2012, Google's Sergey Brin said "ordinary people" would have access to self-driving cars by 2017; the company is still gearing up for a very limited driverless taxi service this year. Volvo quietly delayed a project that was supposed to put 100 Swedish families into autonomous vehicles by 2017. No one wants unready tech on public roads, but for anyone who has bought into the technology's promise to save lives, the delay is a bummer.