Editor's Pick: Musk: Technology May Revoke Your Driver's License

Musk: Technology May Revoke Your Driver's License

Quinten Plummer 03/19/15 7:00 AM PT
	There will come a time, in a future not so far away, when it will be illegal for the average person to drive a car, predicted Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Autonomous vehicles will be exponentially safer, he said Tuesday at Nvidia's 2015 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage with Musk for an unrehearsed conversation about the future of cars. [More...]

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