There have been many headlines about the future of self-driving vehicles – cars that would never get drowsy, never get impaired by alcohol, and never be distracted by cell phones. Well, that future is closer than you think, as David Pogue finds out when he surveys a landscape that features the Tesla Autopilot, and Lyft’s self-driving taxis. Pogue also talks with Jason Torchinsky, author of “Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving.”
