You’d be hard pushed to find a sci-fi movie of the last three decades in which self-driving cars haven’t played some sort of role. Almost as long as we’ve had cars, we’ve been obsessed with the idea that, one day, we wouldn’t have to actually drive them ourselves.

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October 24, 2023
Wayve’s Alex Kendall on autonomous driving, giving robots feedback and being vindicated by Elon Musk
The UK-based autonomous vehicle startup's “AV2.0 approach” sees its vehicles effectively ‘learn’ while on the job, just like a human would
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