Teams of engineers and computer scientists are in a race right now to create the first fleet of driverless cars.
One of those teams is at Carnegie Mellon University.
“The 20th century kind of represented the love affairs of Americans with cars,” says Raj Rajkumar, co-director of a research lab at CMU. “We are essentially trying to take the love affair away.”
Stephen Dubner took a ride with Rajkumar and his colleagues in the latest prototype, a Cadillac SUV (the CMU lab is partially funded by GM).More>>