Carmakers emphasize practicality in new goals for autonomous driving
Pittsburgh held its collective breath when car companies a couple of years ago quietly started backing off their projections for how thoroughly and how quickly we would reach the era of fully autonomous driving. So when Ford and Volkswagen announced last fall that they were actually shuttering Argo AI, their self-diving joint venture, it could’ve been a gut punch for the Iron City, where Argo was based — and where the future of robotic driving largely is being shaped.