self-driving
Speech parts
1. self-driving - Noun
2. self-driving - Adjective
Meaning
self-driving (not comparable)
Of a motor vehicle: equipped with sensors and computer technology to allow it to drive without a human operator.
self-driving (uncountable)
The ability of a motor vehicle to drive itself without a human operator; the technology that enables this.
Synonyms
Examples
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.