> Follow the car ahead of me, if it’s autonomous. The statement in the article is not conditional: > follow the car in front of them (if that car is an autono

> Follow the car ahead of me, if it’s autonomous. The statement in the article is not conditional: > follow the car in front of them (if that car is an autonomous one, it will know exactly when to continue or stop) If the car in front of you is not autonomous, you're still supposed to follow it -- presumably, it's following an autonomous car further down the line. In other words, an autonomous car is responsible for stopping and starting human traffic behind it in the same lane, up to the next autonomous car behind it. All the same, this sure does sound like it has a lot of failure modes.