Sixty Minutes Profiles Self-Driving Cars

On October 4, CBS Sixty Minutes profiled self-driving cars.  I kept expecting to see Becky Morgan on the program, given her interest in technology!  I suspect, however, that she would be as perplexed as I was by the several comparisons of the car’s speed controls to “driving like a little old lady.” 

At this point in development, even the most advanced design periodically signals for the human driver to take over when the car encounters un-preprogrammed facts.  Plus, alas, the current version isn’t prepared for driving in snow.  Perhaps that’s the consequence of all those engineers working on this in Silicon Valley in California.