Human error is the culprit in 93 percent of automobile crashes — including the pileup last weekend that left Tracy Morgan in critical condition, caused, prosecutors say, by a truck driver who had been awake for 24 hours.
Robots, on the other hand, don’t need to sleep. Nor do they get drunk or distracted by cellphones. That is why Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, wrote on Twitter about the accident, with his usual bravado, “
Self-driving cars and trucks are a moral imperative.”
How much safer would driving be if robots replaced humans on the roads?
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- City of Houston tracking calls related to self-driving carson September 28, 2023 at 3:18 pm
Cruise self-driving vehicles caused a small traffic backup in Montrose. The city says the vehicles have been in testing for one year.
- Driverless cars could be a revolution for people with disabilities, but there are also good reasons to be worriedon September 28, 2023 at 9:39 am
Like it or not, driverless cars will start to appear on our roads in the not too distant future. In theory, fully autonomous driverless vehicles will offer huge advantages to people with disabilities.
- Mercedes-Benz One-Upped Tesla in Its Quest for Full Self-Drivingon September 28, 2023 at 8:50 am
Mercedes-Benz’s Drive Pilot self-driving system will debut later this year on its EQS sedans for certain freeways in California and Nevada.
- Solar cell material can assist self-driving cars in the darkon September 28, 2023 at 8:09 am
Material used in organic solar cells can also be used as light sensors in electronics. This has been shown by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, who have developed a type of sensor able to ...
- I watched YouTube in a self-driving Mercedes and experienced the future of commutingon September 28, 2023 at 2:00 am
Mercedes' first-of-its-kind self-driving tech lets you watch TV and play games while your car does all the work. I put it to the test in LA traffic.
- Take a ride in Mercedes-Benz's first self-driving car with new Drive Pilot technologyon September 27, 2023 at 6:37 pm
Recently, I was in the driver's seat of a 2024 Mercedes EQS, but I wasn't driving - the car was! Welcome to the next phase of high-tech driver assistance: Level 3 autonomy. "The paradigm shift to ...
- The self-driving trucks that are deliberately crashedon September 27, 2023 at 4:04 pm
The developers of self-driving trucks don't usually like to see them crash in testing - there would be a lot of mangled metal and the risk of causing serious injury or worse. Instead the hope is very ...
- Self-driving rideshares are already causing traffic jams in Houstonon September 27, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Houston police responded to a strange scene in Montrose on Monday night after malfunctioning traffic lights left four autonmous Cruise cars stranded at a Montro ...
- Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot: The Self-Driving Car Has (Sort Of) Arrivedon September 27, 2023 at 5:00 am
Drive Pilot is the first publicly-available system to achieve Level 3 on the 5-level “autonomous vehicle” scale, allowing drivers to completely disengage from driving ...
- Self-Driving Cars Are Not (Yet) Safeon September 26, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Three things have happened in the last month that have made me think about the safety of self-driving cars a lot more. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued its guidance on the ...
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