The Morning After: Thursday, December 30 2016

ESP, AI or something else? Tesla's Autopilot saw this accident coming and avoided it Like many other driver assists, Tesla's Autopilot feature bounces radar off the road to see what's happening two cars ahead. That's information a human driver wouldn't have otherwise, and as you can see in this video, it helped a Model X avoid joining an accident in the Netherlands. Whether or not they're ready for full self-driving tech, this may at least sell drivers on the effectiveness of Forward Collision Warning systems. Laziness, activate Samsung's Powerbot vacuums connect to Amazon Alexa The next step after having a robot clean up after you is adding voice commands for the full Jetsons experience. The VR7000 doesn't have a video display, humanoid appearance or snappy retorts, but now it can start cleaning whenever you say it should.