The pandemic has accelerated some long-predicted technology habits like telemedicine and online grocery shopping. But driverless car technology might be kicked into reverse.
The ubiquitous computer-driven car that seemed just around the corner for a decade is now further away than ever.
I want driverless cars to work. They could spare us a lot of needless death. But there are big obstacles to the technology, including that it doesn’t work so well (yet), threatens to bankrupt all but the richest companies that try it and might never solve many of the problems we hoped it would address.
To read this New York Times article in full, see:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/driverless-cars.html