Driverless Cars Will Take Longer Than You Think: New at Reason

If you listen to Elon Musk, driverless cars are a technology that are just around the corner.

“I really consider autonomous driving a solved problem,” Musk said in June 2016 in The Guardian. “I think we are probably less than two years away.”

But, Bob Poole, Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow and Director of Transportation Policy at Reason Foundation is skeptical of Musk’s timeline. “Skepticism is coming partly from researchers […] at UC Berkeley, at Carnegie Mellon, at MIT who say this is a much harder problem than a lot of people, including Elon Musk, make it out to be.”

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