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“Automated driving systems have been found to be highly reliable and have now been installed in nearly all roads. While humans are still allowed to drive on local roads (although not on highways), the automated driving systems are always engaged and are ready to take control when necessary to prevent accidents.”
Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2019The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Chapter 10 ('2019'); assessed in 'How Ray Kurzweil's 2019 predictions are faring (pt 3)' (Militant Futurist, 2020)
No roadway automation infrastructure was installed by 2019, humans still drove on highways everywhere, and the only widely mandated intervening system was automatic emergency braking; self-driving progress came from onboard sensors rather than instrumented roads.