We took a ride in Ford's self-driving car

Detroit and its suburbs are designed for driving fast. It’s a metropolitan area connected by high-speed freeways and sprawling mile roads, and was purposely designed without a public transportation system to support its predominant export — the automobile. It’s also the city where I learned to drive: uphill with a stick shift, as a student driver, learning how to safely take my life in my own hands.
Detroit is not the city I associate with autonomous cars, but it soon may be. O