In my book, Silicon Collar I argued driverless cars are a long way off because our infrastructure, laws, ethics are just not evolving as quickly as car technology. Also, it will be a long time before humans give up their love for driving. But in the meantime, the quest for autonomous driving is having a important unintended consequence – cars are becoming safer, as McKinsey writes:
Around the world, the number of ADAS systems (for instance, those for night vision and blind-spot vehicle detection) rose from 90 million units in 2014 to about 140 million in 2016—a 50 percent increase in just two years. Some ADAS features have greater uptake than others. The adoption rate of surround-view parking systems, for example, increased by more than 150 percent from 2014 to 2016, while the number of adaptive front-lighting systems rose by around 20 percent in the same time frame.
They also have an image of technology increasingly available in cars.
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