- Lazy Humans Shaped Google’s New Autonomous Car
Google came up with a new approach to its self-driving car project because humans trusted its previous prototypes too much.
The fact that Google’s bubble-like self-driving car, unveiled this week, lacks a steering wheel might be seen as evidence the company’s software is close to mastering the challenges of piloting a vehicle. But the car’s design is just as much a consequence of what Google’s existing fleet of automated Lexus SUVs revealed about human laziness.
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