Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Get Ready for Robot Cars
- 7 years ago
Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Get Ready for Robot Cars
Waymo had a milestone this week: The company has started testing self-driving cars on public roads in Arizona
without human drivers behind the wheel, a significant milestone in the world of autonomous vehicles.
Typically, self-driving cars have an engineer or some such person sitting in the driver’s seat with hands
hovering above the wheel, ready to take over at a moment’s notice in case something goes wrong.
This week, our DealBook team scooped that the Department of Justice under the Trump administration is pushing Time Warner
and AT&T to sell off Turner Broadcasting Company, which owns CNN, or DirecTV as a condition of a negotiated merger that has long been in the works.
That’s how it was when I “drove” Uber’s self-driving car last year,
and that’s pretty much the case for all other autonomous vehicles being tested on public roads.
Mike: Right, well, we all saw how well the last huge Time Warner merger went, so let’s hope this one goes better!
I see the company’s cars — including the old panda-shaped ones that lack a steering wheel — every morning during my commute.
Waymo had a milestone this week: The company has started testing self-driving cars on public roads in Arizona
without human drivers behind the wheel, a significant milestone in the world of autonomous vehicles.
Typically, self-driving cars have an engineer or some such person sitting in the driver’s seat with hands
hovering above the wheel, ready to take over at a moment’s notice in case something goes wrong.
This week, our DealBook team scooped that the Department of Justice under the Trump administration is pushing Time Warner
and AT&T to sell off Turner Broadcasting Company, which owns CNN, or DirecTV as a condition of a negotiated merger that has long been in the works.
That’s how it was when I “drove” Uber’s self-driving car last year,
and that’s pretty much the case for all other autonomous vehicles being tested on public roads.
Mike: Right, well, we all saw how well the last huge Time Warner merger went, so let’s hope this one goes better!
I see the company’s cars — including the old panda-shaped ones that lack a steering wheel — every morning during my commute.