[firimari]

To answer the supposition at the end of the article, they're already working on driverless racecars. http://selfracingcars.com/

[pmontra]

They announced the cars recently http://fiaformulae.com/en/news/2016/march/roborace-car-revea...

[exDM69]

The link you gave is incorrect. That's an amateur club race in California (which is cool too!). FIA RoboRace is entirely different. The link is:

http://roborace.com

[agumonkey]

At what point will we be discussing humanless humanity ?

[elcapitan]

Wait, isn't that what we are working on anyway?

[agumonkey]

Funny paradox isn't it ? should we stop before it's too late ? or maybe we plan to rely on a climate catastrophe to set progress back to the Jurassic era.

[elcapitan]

Maybe these robots will be smart enough to understand how great humanity was and teach us.