How the race to autonomous cars got sidetracked by human nature
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s terminology for self-driving vehicles have sent the auto and tech industries on a wild-goose chase.
If you believed the early hype about autonomous cars, we’d all be buying them by now, or at least enjoying the view from autonomously driven ride-sharing vehicles. Needless to say, that hasn’t happened. In fact, the day that becomes a reality seems to get pushed further out every day.