Look! No Hands! Would you use a self-driving car?

As part of KGUN9's continuing project "Operation Safe Roads" reporters looked at how college students are learning to program cars that will probably be in your future. In a parking lot, a car, and the college students running it, are building the skills to move self-driving cars from an experiment to an everyday appliance you'd trust with your life.  They're engineering students from a long list of universities gathered at University of Arizona for a special summer program through the National Science Foundation. University of Alabama student Landon Bentley remembers when it was an achievement just to program a car to stay in a straight line.  “I think when a car can merge onto the Interstate, go through stop and go traffic and come back out without having any human interaction I think that would be quite the feat. We can do some of those steps individually. But I think when that whole process is streamlined that, we'll be there." Read more ...