CES 2016: Why we need “trillion-mile reliability” before driverless cars can take the road

By John Bugailiskis

LAS VEGAS – Here’s something you almost never see at CES - a CEO of a major company cautioning the public that its next big innovation is actually years away from being market ready. But that’s just what Gill Pratt, the new CEO of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), told the press here regarding the future of autonomous cars.“Although the industry has made great strides over the last five years, we are a long way from the finish line of fully automated cars,” he said.The auto industry has been measuring on-road reliability of autonomous vehicles in the millions of miles, but...