'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold?
Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold?
The idea of a car that drives itself was viewed until recently as some high-tech nerd's daydream or even the stuff of science fiction, but it may not be that long before a driverless car is idling at an intersection near you.
"It'll be a while before they're going to be mainstream, and there'll be all kinds of interesting questions coming about security, privacy, safety of the system as a whole," Thrun said. "But if they are available within five years for general consumers, I think within 15 years you ought to be able to buy one of those."
"We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half," said Mr. Thrun.
