Archives: February 2026

In America, on the same day, thousands of drivers fill highways thinking they control their situation. We hold the wheel, look in the mirror, trust our instincts. And yet annually tens of thousands of people die in traffic crashes, most of them because of everyday human folly — distraction, fatigue, impatience, misjudgment. Into this uneasy reality steps the prospect of self-driving cars, a technology that compels us to engage in something psychologically hard: to yield control for the sake of safety with self driving cars. The question isn’t whether the idea feels disquieting. The issue is, do the data [...]