THE RISE OF DRIVERLESS CARS
Even readers who love to drive expressed appreciation for Matt Vella's March 7 cover story on the coming age of self-driving autos, calling the piece timely, if bittersweet. Rick Ferrell of Centreville, Md., a former race-car driver who was also once hit by a car, would miss handling his "beloved '97 BMW Z3 roadster," he wrote, but called the safety gained by going driverless "a step in the right direction."
But many others weren't quite ready to trust the new technology. "If auto manufacturers cannot make the relatively simple electronics of today's cars work reliably, how can they drive with them?" asked Robert Tugwell of Belton, S.C. And Mark Johnson, co-owner of an auto-repair shop in Fort Collins, Colo., warned that such cars "will only…
