A few weeks ago, a white Ford Motor Co. vehicle sporting an Uber Technologies Inc. logo and a lot of self-driving gear on the roof drove down my street in San Francisco. There was clearly a driver at the wheel and a passenger next to him, and it was hard to tell if it was in self-driving mode, since the driver's hands were on the steering wheel.
I was the only one staring at the car on the street in a possibly jaded San Francisco Bay Area, a hotbed of serious research and hype on autonomous cars and how they will change our lives.
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