Autonomous Cars Hit The Road In Paris; Dow Ends With Triple-Digit Losses.
QUEST: Autonomous vehicles are hitting the roads in Paris, Melissa Bell find out why the technology is here to stay but pleasing.</s>MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Autonomous driving we're told is the way of the future. Autonomous cars featured heavily at this year's Paris Motor Show. But how can a computer deal with the random, the chaos of Parisian traffic. We decided to put that to the test. Our co-pilots today are our engineers developing the technology that's already been sold to car makers, and where better to start than at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. So the car is now driving itself?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes --</s>BELL: You're not involved at all?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No --</s>BELL: No pebble, no wheel, no nothing --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I got my hands in my</s>BELL: Which should be a dangerous thing, given that cyclist, scooters and pedestrians, not to mention the bad drivers who do have their hands on the wheel. But Benois(ph) says the car sensors are more efficient than the human brain.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And as you can see, there's a pedestrian here, now, you're going to slow because it's detected and then when the pedestrian moves off the crossing, and we have -- oh, yes --</s>BELL: If you pass the pedestrian, it'll go much faster --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes --</s>BELL: To fire(ph) from there --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes --</s>BELL: It's programmed to stop.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.</s>BELL (voice-over): The technology is part programmed, part learned through its many cameras, sensors, computers and radars, the car's artificial intelligence allows it to learn at it goes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just always focused on its dash(ph) which is driving me safely from point A to point</s>B. BELL: Shows that car is just bending very rude --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes --</s>BELL (on camera): It just cut across you --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes --</s>BELL: And the car felt it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes --</s>BELL: And it didn't even complain.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No --</s>BELL: There were no two T(ph) remorse?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No --</s>BELL: There will always be an element of risk, right, there, even for computers?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The zero folk doesn't exist. What we want to show is that we are going to drive during 1 billion towers without any problem.</s>BELL: And that's more better than a human being.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, of course.</s>BELL: Perhaps, the best surprising thing about all this is that this is likely to be an evolution rather than a revolution already. All of the sensors that exist on this car and allow it to drive autonomously exists on the sorts of cars that you would buy today, ordinary cars. And so, what's likely to happen is that little by little, we will get in the habit of letting go of the steering wheel until one day, all cars, even here in the French capital drive themselves. Melissa Bell, Cnn, Paris.</s>QUEST: Before we go, an update on the Dow and the markets. Now, the Dow is off the lows of today, but which will stand here, down some 400 and something, 20-odd points down here. But it is off the lows of the day. And if we get underneath the skin of that, you start to see, really, it is those stocks that are positive are the defensive, Exxon Mobil, Merck, Verizon all with steady streams of revenues. Chevron, J&J, consumer staples. And when you look at the losses, even those companies with the least losses, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Coca-Cola, they are your classic defensive stocks -- pharma and consumer products. The techs are being routed, you saw that with the FANGs, but even the more established IBM down two and three quarters, Intel is off 2 percent, Apple down 2 and a third, Microsoft. So that is the absolute tone of the day as being this rotation continues from FANG and tech into defensive -- the object of course, to try and shore up in the event of slower growth and CAT down now 4 percent, down 4 percent, just simply because industrial earnings are expected to be weaker than expected. We'll have our profitable moment after the break.