Streets Filled With Driverless Cars: A Perpetual Fantasy?

Remember how the Jetsons promised us flying cars? Well, futuristic visions of car travel have a way of falling short of the wild expectations.
Google's robo-car prototype. Photo: Inhabitat
Jarret Walker at Human Transit wonders if some of the grand visions coming from driverless car prognosticators might be similarly science-fiction-esque. He takes particular issue with author Richard Gilbert, [...]

Source: http://streetsblog.net/2013/01/04/driverless-cars-a-perpetual-fantasy/

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