Industria — 2018: Waiting for driverless cars to become a reality

2018: Waiting for driverless cars to become a reality Technology and regulation are key hang-ups for the ‘killer app’ of artificial intelligence Silicon Valley has thrown its technological and deal-making weight behind getting humans away from the steering wheel, but will have to do what tech companies are typically least equipped for before real progress in driverless cars: wait. That’s because it is stubbornly hard to get artificial intelligence, a key component of driverless-car technology, mighty enough to parse out every situation that may arise on the road, to say nothing of technical difficulties that still prevent much more than...