Where to Ride an Autonomous Vehicle

Tech Insider lists five places:

  • Between two towns in the Netherlands
  • A bus in China
  • Taxis in Japan
  • Around an office park in California
  • Somewhere in Finland

Of these, the taxis in Japan seem by far the most interesting, from a rider’s point of voice. The engineering involved in all five of them is spectacular of course.

But the benefits of self-driving cars will only really arrive when they move beyond being “monorails on wheels” and they become personal vehicles to go wherever we want.


Originally published at www.davidincalifornia.com on October 8, 2015.

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