Future Cars - Robot Drivers

" This is Future Car."

" As cars get more brain power, as they become more connected inside the auto matrix, we'll approach a time when we will no longer share the work of driving with them. We will give it all to them. We will begin to view them as creatures who work for us, as robots. "

" The robot will not be distracted, so it's a servant that has to do what you want."

" Not surprisingly, the word robot comes from the Czech word meaning "worker.""

" They never bellyache, and they never go on strike."

" So when your garage is full of robots. "

" You won't even have to tell the vehicle where you want to go. You'll simply go in and say, "Let's go.""

" Home."

" And the vehicle will know where to go."

" The time of cars as robots is in many ways already here. The autonomous cars that are being developed by Red Whittaker and Chris Urmson for the DARPA Challenge gives us a glimpse of driving without our hands on the wheel."

" The screen here is the control we have to turn the vehicle basically into a robot."

" This machine's computing is somewhere between that of a mouse and a monkey, and in the far decades to come, might approach that of a human."

" Robots are not unique in the automotive industry. They already work around the clock, building the cars that will end up in your garage."