the.com/autonomous vehicles
cars that fired the driver but kept all the anxiety.
means vehicles that sense, decide, and steer themselves using sensors and software instead of a human.
from the term autonomous borrows from robotics research, but the dream traces to 1939 GM's Futurama exhibit, which promised automated highways by 1960; sixty years of overpromising later, the SAE finally standardized levels 0 through 5 to measure how much the car actually trusts itself.
levels scalesae defines six levels, most cars stuck at 2
lidar costearly lidar units cost more than the car
edge casescones, plastic bags, kangaroos still confuse them
trolley problemphilosophers loved it, engineers mostly ignored it