Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

We got curious about cars all the way back in episode 60,

and that episode came out six and a half years ago.

We're getting curious about cars again today,

but with an interesting twist, the cars we're talking about today are driverless cars.

If you've never heard of driverless cars, you're probably wondering what they might be, because they can't possibly be what they sound like, right?

They can't be cars that drive by themselves without the help of a driver,

right? Well, wrong. Driverless cars are cars that can drive without any driver input at all. And now you might be thinking, well, that's the stuff of science fiction movies, or maybe it's something we might see a hundred years from now.

But guess what?

There are driverless cars on the road right now.

Thousands of them.

That's right.

Driverless cars might seem like the future, but the future is now.

Let's learn all about it.

Triple mailbag!

Triple mailbag!

Hi Olivia and Olivia's dad, we are on a road trip and have been using our cars' adaptive cruise control a lot. I was wondering how cars can drive with no foot on the pedal.

How do self-driving cars work?

How do they know where to go?

My favorite episode so far was your episode on sneezing.

Four and a half-year-old, Dacken from Nebraska.

I am curious about driverless vehicles and electric vehicles and what they are doing to the world.

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