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Driverless cars

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Driverless cars.

Talks about Driverless cars

Your self-driving robotaxi is almost here

Freeman H. Shen

A future with fewer cars

A camera that can see around corners

How do self-driving cars "see"?

Sebastian Thrun and Chris Anderson

What AI is -- and isn't

What moral decisions should driverless cars make?

How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution

What a driverless world could look like

Travis Kalanick

Uber's plan to get more people into fewer cars

The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars

How a driverless car sees the road

Jennifer Healey

If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable

The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver

A future beyond traffic gridlock

Sebastian Thrun

Google's driverless car

Exclusive articles about Driverless cars

Many of us thought we’d be riding around in AI-driven cars by now — so what happened?

We’ve been told that AI-driven cars will soon be all over our roads, but where are they? Writer Janelle Shane explains how our world with all its unpredictable challenges -- things like pedestrians, sinkholes and kangaroos -- are testing the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence.

Posted Nov 2019

The three steps of building trust in new ideas and businesses

Once upon a time, you would have thought long and hard before you bought sneakers from a stranger in another country or rented out your home to one. So what made you feel it was safe, useful and okay? Trust researcher Rachel Botsman explains the process.

Posted Dec 2017

4 thought-provoking questions to spark conversation

We’re on the brink of a future beyond what we can fathom -- a future with driverless cars, designer babies, intelligent robots, and digital doppelgangers. Who will you choose to be in that future? How will it change you?

Posted Nov 2017