![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not accelerating right now," Siegel says. "The car ahead of me is moving, so the car is following it. How?Īs Siegel was driving in rush-hour traffic to Carr's hotel in Washington, D.C., this system kept him in his lane - had he strayed, it would have taken over the steering - and it maintained his distance from a taxi that cut in front. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. It's even equipped with a special camera and radar that allows for semi-autonomous driving, says Michael Minielly of Mercedes-Benz USA, who was also along for the ride.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Glass Cage Subtitle Automation and Us Author Nicholas Carr And it automatically dims the high beams when oncoming cars approach. The car is Mercedes' top of the line, highest-tech model you can drive. NPR's Robert Siegel picked him up in a state-of-the-art driving machine, a 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 4Matic. And cars of the future that may take over the driving from us altogether. Cars that do many things for us automatically, things we used to do and had to think about. Now in his new book, The Glass Cage, Carr warns us that computers are making more and more decisions for us, and we risk forgetting how to make those decisions ourselves. In The Shallows, he warned that surfing the Internet is destroying our attention span. Nicholas Carr's books are the nagging, tech-wary conscience of the digital age. NPR's Robert Siegel and Michael Minielly, a Mercedes-Benz representative, drive a new S550 4Matic, which allows for semi-autonomous driving.
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