American car giant General Motors has filed a patent for a car that can teach you how to drive. The move would allow learners to jump in a vehicle without an instructor and receive training on public roads.
In the filing, the description of the technology indicates that the autonomous vehicle will be constantly interpreting the world around it, making its own decisions about the correct inputs, then comparing this with what the driver does. This includes looking at their steering and pedal inputs as well as external factors such as speed and position in the road compared with other vehicles.
An algorithm can then determine a score for each of the factors and feed this back to the driver as well as third parties. The filing appears to imply that the vehicle can take over one or more aspects of driving if the score drops below a certain threshold.
