In a well-known parable, a group of blind men encounters an elephant. Each man touches a different part of the elephant and receives very different tactile feedback. Their later descriptions of the elephant to each other disagree, though each individual's description is accurate and captures one portion of the elephant: a tusk, a leg, an ear.
Guest author Alex Salkever is head of product marketing and business development at Silk.co. This piece first appeared on his Tumblr. Google announced that it is building 100 self-driving car prototypes that lack steering wheels, pedals or other troublesome mechanisms that humans might use to drive or steer a vehicle.