Waiting For Self-Deriving Cars

Once you trust a self-driving car with your life, you pretty much will trust Artificial Intelligence with anything--Dave Waters. Keith Kirkpatrick is the author of an interesting CACM article on self-driving cars. It is titled "Still Waiting For Self-Driving Cars" and appears in the news section of this month's issue. Today we discuss why it has been so difficult to get self-driving cars started. Over the past decade, technology and automotive pundits have predicted the "imminent" arrival of fully autonomous vehicles that can drive on public roads without any active monitoring or input from a human driver.