Robotics Expert: Kids Born Today Will Not Drive Cars

Ahead of a global summit on robotics and automation, a prominent robotics expert says that children born today will not be driving cars. Henrik Christensen, who runs UC San Diego’s young Contextual Robotics Institute, says that autonomous cars could allow people to be more productive and make roads and traffic more efficient without improving the infrastructure. “My own prediction is that kids born today will never get to drive a car. Autonomous, driverless cars are 10, 15 years out. All the automotive companies — Daimler, GM, Ford — are saying that within five years they will have autonomous, driverless cars on the road.”