The Soul of a New (Driving) Machine

How the progress we've already made on autonomous vehicles will change everything, we just don't know it yet

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

-Karel Čapek, Rossum’s Universal Robots¹

My last story for WIRED magazine was about autonomous vehicles (AVs) and an informal track day held by investor Josh Schachter. Every year for several years now, a very motley collection of startup entrepreneurs and tinkerers gather to pit computer-driven cars against h…