WALL-E Take the Wheel: Thinking Through the Possibilities of the Driverless Revolution

As TechCrunch points out, in the case of Uber, self-driving vehicles are equipped with a variety of overlapping, redundant detection systems that use a variety of different imaging technologies to detect pedestrians, other vehicles, and the roadway. In many applications today, the self-driving cars also have a human monitoring the vehicle as a failsafe, but as Fortune reports, Waymo has already begun testing self-driving vehicles without a human “failsafe” in Phoenix, Arizona.

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