In fact, it was eerily familiar: In 2000, Esquire gulled many with a profile of a company called Freewheelz, which supposedly offered free cars to drivers willing to tool around in a vehicle that served as a mobile billboard.
Ron says what they came up with was "a working tool for drivers, with a whole series of aspects which made their working day more useful and effective".
In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will let drivers quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, and save time and fuel.
In the same way people in Google cars become more comfortable with AI driving than with human drivers, Kurzweil predicts that computer intelligence will become a reliable tool that people will become dependent on.