Fellow HP board member — and Kleiner partner — Ray Lane and another well-known VC, Marc Andreessen, apparently were critical in getting consensus among the directors.

When driverless cars take the road, the most important road infrastructure will be the low-tech painted-on lane markers that provide critical visual information for the car's deep - learning software.

Considering the vehicles' changeable critical headway when driving along the acceleration lane of an on-ramp, a vehicle merging model was proposed using differential method.