The End of Driving?
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- Published on Friday, 20 September 2013 13:39
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A chorus of carmakers has declared that they expect autonomous cars to reach commercial viability by 2020. Computer systems and sensors that handle parking, braking, and to a limited degree, steering are already giving us a glimpse of a future in which machines not only drive unassisted but do so better than any human can.
Now Tesla Motors, maker of the eponymous electric luxury sports car that debuted to rave reviews, has upped the ante. Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, says that within the next three years, his company aims to produce systems capable of safely taking the helm for 90 percent of miles driven.