GM Wants Your Car to Do Your Chores
GM’s method, by contrast, is to slowly expand “eyes-off” capabilities to more sorts of roads, letting drivers text or eat or watch YouTube first on some highways, and then on more highways, and then on local roads, and then maybe everywhere.
That’s when the automaker's vision gets bigger and blurrier. The cabin, the company says in a blog post, can become a space to “relax, work, and unwind. … In time, this will pave the way for a future where your car can take on everyday errands,” the company says. The personal self-driving car will pick up groceries, drop off children, and then maybe even find a parking spot at the end.
Urban planners and infrastructure experts have worried about this vision. If you lower the price of a car trip, in money and time spent driving, won’t everyone send their cars out for every task? Won’t the roads be...
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