AI helps pave the way for self-driving cars


A steering wheel emerges from the inside of a demonstration dash for the Tensor Robocar, an autonomous-driving electric car, during CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. — Reuters

LAS VEGAS: Even if Elon Musk's dream of robotaxis for everyone is a long way off, sleek electric cars powered by artificial intelligence packed the Consumer Electronics Show, promising to liberate people from the tedium of driving.

Letting go of the steering wheel is no longer a fantasy: Waymo's robotaxis in the United States and China's Apollo Go, which has been growing rapidly over the past year, have demonstrated the reliability of fully autonomous driving, where responsibility lies with the machine and not the human.

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