“Unnerving” is the word
Forbes’ Detroit bureau chief chose to describe her trip in one of
Google’s (
GOOG) famous driverless cars, and we can’t blame her. In a recent article, Joann Muller detailed her ride-along in a driverless car with Google’s Chris Urmson, head of the team currently tasked with building the systems that may guide automobiles of the future. While the $65,000 laser sensor on the roof and the $35,000 worth of additional technology packed into Google’s driverless cars is remarkably advanced, it apparently isn’t easy to trust a computer to respond to all of the crazy things human drivers do behind the wheel.
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