(CBS News) CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. – It’s been a year since California passed a law letting driverless cars on the road — and major automakers are now busier than ever building vehicles that don’t need you.
It looks like an SUV driven right off the showroom floor. But this Cadillac SRX is not like anything you’ve seen before.
“So my feet are just sitting down here,” said lead engineer Jarrod Snider, demonstrating inside the car with us, “my hands are off the wheel. And you will see that it has to operate the breaks, the throttle, the steering, thrust, turn signals.”
The fully-autonomous vehicle was designed by engineers at the GM Collaborative Research Lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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