#1925: Self-Driving Car Milestones

XKCD comic, described below.
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Upcoming and recently-achieved

Self-driving car milestones

  • Automatic emergency braking
  • Highway lane-keeping
  • Self-parking
  • Full highway autonomy
  • First sex in a self-driving car
  • Full trips with no input from driver
  • Full trips by empty cars
  • An empty car wandering the highways for months or years until someone notices the credit card fuel charges
  • Cars that read other cars' bumper stickers before deciding whether to cut them off
  • Autonomous engine revving at red lights
  • Self-loathing cars
  • Autonomous canyon jumping
  • Cars capable of arguing about the trolley problem on Facebook

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

I'm working on a car capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex boolean expressions on "honk if [...]" bumper stickers and responding accordingly.

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