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Driverless car
This car can drive itself from A to B
Driverless car
No-one at the wheel

An earlier Darpa rally
An earlier Darpa rally in the desert
Driverless car
Driverless car
So how long it will be before computers can drive as safely as humans?
You might buy a car that has a special button called an 'auto-chauffeur' button. You push it and it drives you home and wakes you up in your garage
Sebastian Thrun
"How have you convinced yourself that human driving is safe?" says Stanford artificial intelligence expert Professor Sebastian Thrun. "We kill about a million people a year around the globe. Almost every loss of life is a result of human error. Statistics will tell us the truth, that these cars are more reliable than human driving."
A future where your car is an obedient pet sounds fantastic. Unless you're the law firm of a motor manufacturer. Imagine if the auto-driver fails, and there's injury or death. Instead of the driver getting sued, the car company is in the dock. So much of this technology will be introduced gradually.