The self-driving car is old enough to drink and drive

Twenty-one years ago, when we were shooting Triumph of the Nerds, the director, Paul Sen, introduced me to his cousin who was working at the time on a big Department of Transportation research program to build self-driving cars. Twenty-one years ago! Yet what goes around comes around and today there is nothing fresher than autonomous cars, artificial intelligence. You know, old stuff. As you can see from this picture, driverless cars were tested by RCA and General Motors decades earlier, back in the 1950s. What changed from 1995 until today in my view comes down to three major things: 1)… [Continue Reading]