Toyota Plans Years of Building Cars Largely Controlled by Humans
- Automaker casts skepticism on imminent arrival of self-driving
- Toyota says world accepts death by human error, not computers
Race To Build Self-Driving Cars Accelerates
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Toyota Motor Corp. plans to spend years designing cars in which humans retain a large measure of control, since the goal of turning all driving decisions over to computers seems too dangerous for now.
The problem, Toyota said Wednesday, is that society has come to accept 39,000 traffic fatalities a year in the U.S., mostly due to human error, but would never tolerate similar carnage involving cars controlled by computers.