DETROIT, Michigan - Self-driving vehicles hold the key to reducing traffic fatalities and will transform the automobile industry, predicts a top Google executive.
Ray Kurzweil, a leading expert in artificial intelligence who joined Google in 2012, told the annual conference of the society of automotive engineers that the rapidly declining cost of computing power and the advances in artificial intelligence will make autonomous driving a reality.
He told the audience that autonomous driving, utilising artificial intelligence, is definitely coming.