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Item #3 (Advanced Level)

The Future is Already Here

If you’ve driven in Jerusalem in recent months, it’s very possible that the

car driving next to you did it all by itself. Though a driver was sitting

behind the wheel, [but] the car was completely autonomous. They didn’t
choose Jerusalem by chance, with its pedestrians and transportation

problems, for driving lessons for the driverless car. If it passes this test in

the capital successfully, the computer, they believe, will be able to deal
with any city in the world. This car is part of a thirty five vehicle fleet,

soon expected to expand to a hundred. It has twelve cameras that film

everything that happens around it at all times. Everything goes to
computers in the trunk. “In the next generation, a chip about this size will

be able to drive the entire vehicle.” In two thousand and twenty one, this

chip will provide autonomous driving for eight million vehicles around the
world. So yes, two thousand twenty one is just around the corner, but the

driverless car still has a rough road ahead – dealing with regulation that

will allow millions to part with the (driving) wheel, and maybe more
importantly, gain the trust of the public, to agree to put its fate at the hands

of technology.

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