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How Self-Driving Cars Could Make Streaming TV the Next Radio

“We’re still in the world of automated systems, not automated driving,” said Jennifer Kent, connected car analyst for Parks Associates.

She estimated such automated systems will become more commonplace over the next three to five years. The next five to 10 years will see greater autonomous driving. It requires a driver present in the front seat still in command of the wheel and brakes to take control in emergent situations at the computers’ prompting.

From the article "How Self-Driving Cars Could Make Streaming TV the Next Radio" by Joan E. Solsman.

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