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AUTONOMOUS CARS ARE APPROACHING FAST—AND THERE’S NO ONE AT THE WHEEL

KIM REYNOLDS

“In the future, you can imagine that driving your own car could be illegal.” Simultaneously, every single journalist in the audience turned on their audio recorders. Perched on the enormous stage at the GPU Conference in San Jose, Elon Musk was perilously ad-libbing about the future of the autonomous car while being casually interviewed by Nvidia co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang. “You can’t have a person driving a 2-ton death machine.” I quietly groaned, knowing he was going to regent that. And, of course, like everything Musk utters in public, it was instantly picked up by the major news outlets, recast as some sort of profound, Jules Verne–like prediction of the future, and then ricocheted around the Internet. And predictably, Tesla’s founder was quickly tweeting clarifications “To be clear, Tesla is strongly…

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European Car (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2015

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