| Summary: | A report on the advancement of self-driving cars powered by a form of artificial intelligence. In Silicon Valley, Bill Whitaker takes a test drive in the Mercedes-Benz self-driving automobile and sits inside Google's version of the driverless car. Unlike current cars, the issues consumers will face with self-driving cars will be related to cybersecurity and privacy. The car industry plans to automate the driving experience feature-by-feature first, before a driverless car is introduced to the market. Mercedes-Benz shared their vision for a car in the year 2030, the F015, a design where the driver turns its back to the steering wheel. (Includes an excerpt from an Infiniti ad) Includes interviews with: Ralf Herrtwich, director of driver assistance and chassis systems at Daimler AG/Mercedes-Benz; Chris Urmson, director self-driving cars at Google; Jaime Waydo, systems engineer at Google; Peter Lehmann, engineer at Daimler AG/Mercedes-Benz; and Mark Rosekind, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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