What life science can learn from self-driving

Following years of anticipation, autonomous vehicles are here. Fully and partially autonomous vehicles are one of the most mature production applications of artificial intelligence (AI). Not all ambitious milestones and inflated expectations were fully met, but real progress has been made.

Today, in San Francisco, I can summon a Waymo with my phone and minutes later a white Jaguar I-Pace, enveloped with spinning sensors, will pull up carefully — the driver’s seat empty.