AI helps pave the way for self-driving cars

Letting go of the steering wheel is no longer a fantasy: Waymo's robotaxis in the United States and China's Apollo Go, which has been growing rapidly over the past year, have demonstrated the reliability of fully autonomous driving, where responsibility lies with the machine and not the human. Rivals such as Uber are fast emerging. The ride-sharing giant used the CES event in Las Vegas to debut a Lucid robotaxi, aiming to put a fleet of them to work in San Francisco later this year. Offering the...