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Sorry, driverless cars are not in your near future
It’s time for some real talk about self-driving cars: they're not coming around any time soon.
You won’t find a bigger fan of the technology than me. I love robots, autonomy and artificial intelligence. I can still remember visiting Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and standing a few feet away from the car that nearly won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004.
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But I’m also a realist — and despite recent promises by Uber and Ford, I know that self-driving cars are decades away from becoming a significant part of our lives.
You have to love Ford and its promise of a driverless car by 2021 — a mere five years from now. We're not just talking about an automobile that can drive itself, but one without steering wheel or floor pedals. This is what’s known in the world of car autonomy as a Level 5. (Ford actually insists it's a 4, mostly because the car will sometimes follow a mapped out route. Let's agree to disagree and put it at 4.5). Read more...
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