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State Of Autonomy: December Recap
Every month, I recap the news articles I’ve consumed around autonomous vehicles, calling out the highlights and keeping track of market progress. This is also your chance to nominate a topic for discussion next month.
December was a remarkably light news month, but our wonderful media outlets came to the rescue by Frankensteining together a batch of “2018 recap” articles, most of which exclaimed that autonomous tech had faltered during the past year by highlighting the death of Elaine Herzberg and then tossing in some garbage material as filler. The sentiment is pretty far from the truth, but we know the public prefers stories over facts and logic, so that’s what you get from publications that get paid to grab you by the eyeballs.
As a counterpoint, I’ll offer a brief recap of my year’s more notable editorials. May you go into 2019 a wiser person, or at least riddled with self-doubt:
- Why It’s So Difficult To Compare Man And Machine
- Why There Is No Clear Distinction Between Conventional Cars And Autonomous Cars
- Why Self-Driving Vehicles Won’t Outperform Humans
- Why Driverless Cars Don’t Need To Prevent A Single Crash
