Family Tech: Self-driving cars sound scary but could actually be safer - April 1, 2016
New to this blog: you can now subscribe to the blog by email. Just fill in your address to the left. It has been five years since Google stunned the world by showing how far along it was with its self-driving cars. Suddenly another invention, first seen in science fiction, seemed poised to become real. During the intervening years we may have settled into the idea that true self-driving cars were still a someday thing. Fully self-driving cars are not so much going to appear suddenly in dealerships, as gradually enter our lives. In reality, there are cars on the road now with self-driving capabilities. Readers with some newer, high-priced vehicles already have some self-driving features. Some cars have auto parallel parking, often called park assist. Ford, Lincoln, BMW, Range Rover, Nissan and Mercedes Benz have this feature. I’d have killed for this when I lived in San Francisco. I wonder if they can parallel park on the other side of the street on a 24-degree d...