The allure of self-driving cars, where we can relax while being driven to our destination, is universal. But are the cars, or the cities in which we plan to let them loose, up to the task?
Director Brett Gaylor travels to northern France where the company TEQMO is testing self-driving cars in common accident scenarios, such as getting cut-off at an intersection. Let’s just say, they still have some testing to do. On the infrastructure front, hacker Cesar Cerato is on a mission to expose weaknesses in smart city traffic systems. Steps from the White House in Washington, he is surprised to discover that Washington’s traffic sensors could be manipulated by a hacker.