Self-Driving Cars Won’t Save Us

Better solutions are right in front of our eyes

Allison Gauss
GEN
Published in
5 min readJun 21, 2019

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WWhen you read Elon Musk’s blustering declarations about LIDAR, the laser scanning technology most self-driving cars rely on, it’s easy to imagine the words coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth.

“Anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed. Doomed,” the Tesla CEO said at an event for investors in April. “Expensive…

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Allison Gauss
GEN
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Writer, musician, improvisor, recovering pessimist.