id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt blog-dshr-org-7459 DSHR's Blog: Techno-hype part 1 .html text/html 6968 622 79 Three years ago, Google's self-driving car project abruptly shifted from designing a vehicle that would drive autonomously most of the time while occasionally requiring human oversight, to a slow-speed robot without a brake pedal, accelerator or steering wheel. "Autonomous vehicles are in danger of being turned into "weapons", leading governments around the world to block cars operated by foreign companies, the head of Baidu's self-driving car programme has warned. And that future is closer than you might think: California will allow companies to test autonomous vehicles without a safety driver — as long as the car can be operated remotely — starting next month." from John R. "even Waymo's CEO, John Krafcik, now admits that the self-driving car that can drive in any condition, on any road, without ever needing a human to take control — what's usually called a "level 5" autonomous vehicle — will never exist. ./cache/blog-dshr-org-7459.html ./txt/blog-dshr-org-7459.txt