Robotic driving instructors are here to make lessons less stressful

RoboCoach will teach you how to drive and call you ‘mommy’ while doing it

This guy has to be the worst driving student we’ve ever seen. (Picture: Beijing Yi Jia Jia Technology)

Driving instructors might soon be joining the list of jobs to be replaced by AI in the near future. A company in China has developed an AI-powered driving instructor called RoboCoach, and it’s already being used in driving schools.

Unfortunately, RoboCoach is not a humanoid robot that sits next to you and criticizes your driving skills (although that would be awesome). The digital driving instructor developed by Beijing Yi Jia Jia Technology is actually a teaching and safety control system integrated into the vehicle.

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