Steering safety issues of driverless vehicles

A shift to self-driving cars will mean rather than depending on other drivers to compensate for our mistakes, we'll depend on engineers to make fewer of them, writes Stephen M Zoepf

A shift to self-driving cars will mean rather than depending on other drivers to compensate for our mistakes, we'll depend on engineers to make fewer of them, writes Stephen M Zoepf

As recently as 2013, the phrase “self-driving car” was nowhere to be found in documents published by the US Department of Transportation. Oh, what a difference half a decade makes.