Self-driving cars

There have been many headlines about the future of self-driving vehicles – cars that would never get drowsy, never get impaired by alcohol, and never be distracted by cell phones. Well, that future is closer than you think, as David Pogue finds out when he surveys a landscape that features the Tesla Autopilot, and Lyft's self-driving taxis. Pogue also talks with Jason Torchinsky, author of "Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving."

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[kxp.]

Everybody gangster till jah takes the wheel

[SelfDrivingCarsNews]

"Self-driving requested", "here we are"!

[jbbuzzable]

Self driving vehicles will be the most disruptive technology since the advent of the cell phone.

[rogerdale]

My mom is 95. She's still driving her own car— her eyesight is good enough, and her hearing, but she can't come up to my house 60 miles away, it's too much. I'd LOVE it if she were able to say "Roger's house" to her car, and she'd be delivered here. (Denver area)...

[UnplayedGaming]

2:09 why did the chicken cross the road
Car: idk

[bru]

I feel like the car would betray me or crash into other cars when it stops at a light

[ThatBoyDanny]

We already need to come up with stuff like this people who are unable to drive due to vision loss or hearing loss or any other type of condition need to get places and have things to do we shouldn't have to rely on friends and family to take us places because you know they got their own lives we have the technology to do this I know we do

[kyleebrock]

Do older people fear technology? Or is it just change?

[bobsmith]

Once you relinquish your control of your vehicle you're just Spam in a can

[djcj]

When I'm old, I'll need this

[jac]

I look forward to self driving cars. I had surgery and now cannot drive. Try not driving for a few years.

[adamschmirler]

Forget it. Bring back the Manual transmissions. They are more fun for a person to drive, and a car is not a real car without them.

[Lines]

I've taken enough cabs driven by real cabbies to be forever suspicious of being ripped off. It was just part of the job to take you long way wherever you were going.

[OldMovieRob]

Seems interesting enough, but wonder how these kind of cars play out on unmarked/uncharted country roads, with occasional random animals crossing, weather variables, etc, etc...

[jacquejac]

They should make this tech common in FL. The state needs it badly.

[jade]

When the self driving car crashes into another, Who will get the ticket?..certainly not the car!!!! The person sitting in the car will.

[dennisschmidt]

3:34 Complete B.S. of course the accident rate is higher for human operated like a million times more of them on the

[screenapple]

I don't want taxis verison. I want own a self driving car version. I don't want steering wheels. I want touch screen upfront.

[quasicesium]

I am all for autonomous cars, but has Tesla dealt with the problem where it can't tell the difference between a long commercial truck and an overpass?

[williampennjr.]

has anyone Ever seen a computer that didnt freeze up, or a gps that didnt give the wrong directions? If they can make error free computers than why dont computer companys and cell phone companys sell them already?