While you might see Google’s self-driving car projects hitting the headlines every day, the reality is, they might not be available where you live for really quite a long time. According to a talk by the self-driving car project’s technical lead Chris Urmson at SXSW, that could mean a wait of up to 30 years, depending on where you live.
“How quickly can we get this into people’s hands? If you read the papers, you’re going to see that it’s maybe three years, maybe it’s thirty years. And I am here to tell you that, honestly, it’s a bit of both.”
That might come as a disappointment to some people, but for me, it sounds like a pretty good plan.
Driving on the wide-open, sunny roads of California probably isn’t quite the same as inching your way through miserable grey London traffic. And that’s different again to the incredibly narrow, winding country roads.
Of course, if you do live in one of the more self-driving car-hospitable regions, you’ll probably only have to wait a few more years.
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