Meet Olli, the self-driving shuttle you can talk to -- thanks to IBM's Watson

Local Motors, the company behind the first 3-D printed car, just debuted its first self-driving vehicle. The shuttle-like vehicle, called Olli, can fit up to 12 passengers and is also the first autonomous vehicle to use Watson -- IBM's machine-learning platform -- to communicate with passengers. That means Olli can respond to voice commands, like "Hey, Olli, please take me downtown," and also answers questions using IBM's speech-to-text, natural-language classifier, entity extraction and text-to-speech technology. The Watson-powered shuttle will even be able to recommend destinations to its passengers. And so begins the transition from human bus drivers to robot bus drivers.