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THE STATE OF SELF- DRIVING CARS WITH CURRENT TECHNOLOGY, AUTONOMY IS MOSTLY HAPPENING ON LIMITED -ACCESS HIGHWAYS
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in a car with state-of-the-art self-driving technology today and Jheadump for the highway, because that’s
where you can use it. Once at cruising speed, switch the system on and take your hands off the wheel and your feet off the pedals. Your car will follow the highway, slow down for traffic ahead, and apply the brakes when necessary. It’s impressive—you can drive for hours this way—but it’s not exactly the full autonomy we were promised by now. Elon Musk of Tesla said last year that he was “extremely confident” that Level 5 autonomy (cars that can drive themselves under all circumstances) “will happen, and I think it will happen very quickly.”
