Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity (see last Friday's post "Online learning"), has another grand concern - cars, like many of his fellow Germans. Head of AI (artificial intelligence) at Stanford University, he led the development of the Google driverless car.
He explains here that most deaths among young people are due to car accidents, and most of them are from driver error - not mechanical error. This means that most accidents and accompanying injury/death are preventable if the car can do the driving.
When will they be widely available? Last week on radio I heard him say that the cars, while mostly error-free, yet will make an error that could lead to an accident every 50,000 miles or so. They're trying to fix that.
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