Its seems a day doesn’t go by without another announcement from Telsa, Uber, or Alphabet (Google) about their self-driving car projects. Back in October Telsa announced that all its cars would now be made with the hardware to be “fully self driving” (here). Just today it was announced that Uber may be planning to roll out self driving taxi’s in San Fransisco (here) after already having done so in Pittsburgh (here) and Google just officially named its self driving car division ‘Waymo’ and formed it into its own company (here).
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For those readers who are not quite up to speed on of just how far self-driving technology has come, this video of Telsa ‘drivers’ paying games and doing just about everything except driving while their cars hurtle down the road should bring you up to speed: here.
Despite the impressive advancements that have been made in self driving cars, the skeptics out there may be wondering just how far off the fully driver-less car really is. Luckily Reason.com recently sat down with Bob Poole, Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow and Director of Transportation Policy at Reason Foundation to discuss just that question.
Enjoy the interview from Reason.com below:
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