SYSTEMS: Flying cars, jet-powered skateboards - the stuff that Trekkies get a little too excited about and where futurologists predict the travel industry will be some day. Maybe not, but early prototypes of driver-less cars are coming thick and fast. Google's latest incarnation has one only control switch - on and off. Read more on The New York Times.
For the past four years, Google has been trying to push us into a sci-fi age.
It has been working on self-driving cars with a mechanism to return control of the steering wheel to the driver in case of emergency.
But Google’s brightest minds now say they can’t make that handoff work anytime soon.
Their answer? Take the driver completely out of the driving.
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