Google's Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving

each and every one of Google robot cars has experienced the totality of everything all its siblings have experienced. Google’s cars have driven a total of 1.2 million miles on the roads.... effectively every single car has driven that distance, has experienced it. [plus] ... 3 million miles every day running scenarios This is a machine that learns.... autonomous vehicles will become a pervasive technology and we should always interrogate things that will transform our society before, rather than after, the fact... Cars are giant, inefficient, planet-and-people killing death machines. Self-driving cars ... we could have fewer vehicles per person, less traffic congestion, less pollution, far fewer vehicles produced per year (thus lowering the environmental impact of production), and best of all, safer streets... Your love for cars doesn’t supersede the lives of 1.2 million people who die in automobile accidents every year. - Google's Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving - BuzzFeed News