And soon, some researchers argue, we could have robot cars acting as chauffeurs during our daily commutes—letting us sit back and read, text, email or watch TV, while our car does all the driving. But there are still challenges carmakers need to overcome before we see highways packed with autonomous vehicles. You know—little things, like mistaking harmless puddles of water for potholes. Or big stuff, like misjudging the movements of a pedestrian and causing serious injury. Now researchers are working to get self-driving cars to act as if there’s a real person behind the wheel. To do that they need to be equipped with “eyes” and “brains” that work more like humans.’.

Originally released by Inside Science, 2017. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 26, 2018.

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