Fast Company Takes a Spin in VAIL's iPhone-Controlled Autonomous Vehicle

Distracted driving caused 6,000 automobile fatalities in 2008 alone. People probably aren't going to stop texting and fiddling around with gadgets while driving anytime soon, so why not make it a little bit less dangerous to be distracted? That's one of the things students and researchers at Stanford's Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL) are attempting to do with their work on autonomous vehicles--cars that use sensors to drive themselves around without human interaction.

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