Silicon Valley seems to think that the march to self-driving vehicles is inexorable, but the carmaking industry’s biggest players are betting that most drivers prefer to keep their hands on the wheel. According to one estimate, self-driving technology in cars may grow into a $42 billion industry in just a decade. Google is zooming to a fully self-driving commercial vehicle. Tesla is on its way, and Apple is seriously building the capability to develop an…
The world’s biggest automakers think that humans will always want to drive their own cars
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