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Transportation

Oct. 8, 2014

Self-driving cars: 20 years out, still

Carmakers have been waxing on about self-driving automobiles for the past 80 years with the same conclusion: They are about 20 years out. By Jonathan Michaels


By Jonathan Michaels


In its quest to be the first manufacturer to develop an autonomous car, General Motors designed the "Highways & Horizons" pavilion - a public display of its self-driving cars that would change the way we think of private transportation. The showing represented "almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country - across mountains, over rivers and lakes, th...

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