It makes no mistakes, it’s faster every time, it is the next big thing: it is artificially intelligent. A new era of technology is here, making a dream become a reality and a thought into a movement. Today, more than two thirds of the population has a personal vehicle, making automotive transportation the most popular mode of transportation as a result of being the most mobile, flexible, available, and private means of traveling. However, it comes at a cost: in a world that runs on motor vehicles there are billions of gallons of gasoline being used everyday, frequent accidents more often the result of human error, and time spent actively engaged in driving. Visionaries imagined the possibility that one day, billions of people wouldn’t have to hassle with the ordinary inconveniences of physically operating a car at every point in time.
From the radio-controlled Houdina in 1925 to the electronic-receiver embedded Firebird, all experiments had failed. The road to driverless cars has lead to a dead end with nearly every attempt, with the only advancements after a century of pursuit being cruise control. At the break of the twenty-first century, nonetheless, sparked hope in the forgotten dream of autonomy. Driving the force of innovation, the power of computers are about to make driverless cars a reality. Amidst the artificial intelligence wildfire sweeping innovations directing a new era of a highly technologically integrated society sceptical traditionalists argue that the wave of automotive artificial intelligence faces ever mounting obstacles as before, but nonetheless the unicorn initiative Zoox is proving itself to have a plethora of opportunities to pioneer artificially intelligent innovations while forging a future of safe personal