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A way to enjoy driving on Memorial Drive

View of Boston's Back Bay skyline, at night across the Charles River from Memorial Drive in Cambridge, just south of the Longfellow Bridge.

— Photo by Eric Hill

I love driving through Western Massachusetts, out through the Berkshires, when the road is empty and it's a nice day. I don't like driving home on Memorial Drive at 5:45 or 6:45 at night when it's crowded and stressful. I think that's true of most people, and the goal of automated driving is to take the stressful part of driving out of the task.

Karl Iagnemma, a Massachusetts-based American writer and research scientist and CEO of Cambridge-based  self-driving technology company NuTonomy.

Mt. Greylock, in The Berkshires