The box that brought Fred Allen and Major Bowes into American homes was known early on as a wireless. The telephone you used while walking from room to room was cordless. Now we are at the dawn of the driverless car, also often described as autonomous. “I have to confess, I’m actually really torn,” said John Leonard, a robotics expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The machines must learn to grapple with snow or rain, which can throw their sensors out of whack.

Source: New York Times July 14, 2019 23:37 UTC