Can We Teach Cars to Drive? It's an Uphill Challenge.
- Producers:
- Erik German
- María Villaseñor
- Editor:
- Gella Zefira
Autonomous vehicle technology has gotten better in the last decade, but the hype has gotten bigger. Teaching machines to drive is a complex engineering feat. Bad weather, narrow streets, heavy traffic, pedestrians and bikes pose problems for the software controlling these cars. How close are we to a time when a robot chauffeur will be able to drive us safely anywhere cars can legally go?
Additional footage by Rob Green.
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