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Autonomous Driving is Here to Stay

2013-05-17 19:06:15| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News

Editorial comment: Autonomous vehicles or so-called driverless cars have been in the news a lot lately. Some of it good and some bad. A decade ago most of us looked at autonomous driving as something off the wall, unsafe, something to keep away from teens and, at best, completely unaffordable. Today, were beginning to see autonomous driving in a totally different light. What began last decade with the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) pioneering robo-car races in the desert has evolved into Googles self-driving cars safely motoring (with supervision) some 300,000 mi (480,000 km) on city streets and freeways, not to mention the introduction of new autonomous research vehicles from Audi and Lexus at the last Consumer Electronics Association's Consumer Electronics Show. The course of autonomous driving technology depends greatly on the researchers who develop it, and what their intentions will be. Will it make us safer, or does it have the potential for making the roads more dangerous? The discussion is still ongoing. [Read more]The Article Autonomous Driving is Here to Stay appeared first on Automotive Digest.

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