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Your car: ‘Take a nap, I’ve got this…

THE CRYSTAL BALL that provides an insight into the future of autonomous driving is a weird sphere of deeply divisive properties. In fact, it would seem that clarity comes not from the ball itself, but from the eyes of whoever is gazing into it.

Some experts see nothing but a hazy point far into the future where humans are always going to be required behind the wheel. For others, the vision sparkles with complete clarity, where driverless taxis shuttle you seamlessly to your destination, or where you nap in the driver’s seat of your car on the boring, traffic-snarled commute home.

No surprise that Audi’s Head of Advance Development Automated Driving, Miklos Kiss, is very firmly in the latter camp. He’s been a senior figure in this area for nearly a decade, but

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