NYT reports on driverless car symposium

24 January 2012 Posted By anthonyp

The New York Times reports on a driverless car symposium at Santa Clara University.

Highlights of the article suggest that:

  • Driverless car legislation will be introduced in California soon.
  • Driverless cars will restore the USA’s car industry “primacy”
  • Some scholars have concerns driverless cars will be too “polite” to compete with aggressive human drivers.
  • AI may need to improve for driverless cars to recognise police etc
  • Rumours are that Google hopes to have autonomous taxis by 2013 or 2014.

EDIT: In regards to policing driverless cars, presumably the car AI could be WiFi enabled possibly allowing communication via instant messaging with police, transport authorities, traffic lights etc.

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