You'd think that when a robotic car and a human-driven vehicle have a run in, the unmanned auto would be the one to go.

Now I know for sure: He just let "Boss," the robotic car that won Darpa's Urban Challenge rally, drive him around an obstacle course.

Despite what its product website will tell you, it's not yet a 100 percent autonomous robotic car being released in 2024.

We now know that there are robotic cars smart enough to drive themselves around a city.

Three US states and the District of Columbia have already passed legislation regulating robotic cars on public roads.

You can quibble all you like with the timeline of how far away fully robotic cars actually are, but the numbers stack up regardless.

Almost everyone else has embraced this way of thinking, abandoning the step-by-step approach and promising to begin launching fully robotic cars within a few years.