Driverless? No, But How About Having a Car as Co-Pilot?

Two decades ago, the US military kicked off the race to build a self-driving car by sending a fleet of fledgling robot vehicles across the Mojave Desert in its seminal 2004 Darpa challenge. Ten years later, the auto industry was bubbling over with predictions that fully self-driving cars would be all over the roads by now. That hasn’t happened. But the industry has since put limited bits of automation such as hands-free driving and crash-avoidance systems into mass-produced models. Such …

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