December 6, 2017

#1925: Self-Driving Car Milestones

Upcoming and recently-achieved

Self-driving car milestones

• Automatic emergency braking
• Highway lane-keeping
• Self-parking
• Full highway autonomy
• First sex in a self-driving car
• Full trips with no input from driver
• Full trips by empty cars
• An empty car wandering the highways for months or years until someone notices the credit card fuel charges
• Cars that read other cars’ bumper stickers before deciding whether to cut them off
• Autonomous engine revving at red lights
• Self-loathing cars
• Autonomous canyon jumping
• Cars capable of arguing about the trolley problem on Facebook