Autonomous cars are learning our unpredictable driving habits

IN THE near future, you may have to share the road with a robot. Or perhaps we should say that a robot will have to share the road with you. At the University of California, Berkeley, engineers are preparing autonomous cars to predict what we impulsive, unreliable humans might do next. A team led by Katherine Driggs-Campbell has developed an algorithm that can guess with up to 92 per cent accuracy whether a human driver will make a lane change. She is due to present the work next month at the Intelligent Transportation Systems conference in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.