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Self-driving cars are coming – but are we ready?

  • Written by Johanna Zmud, Senior Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University
imageHow will we react when cars start driving themselves?Patramansky Oleg/Shutterstock.com

It’s been 60 years since the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine gave us the promise of flying cars. But our personal mobility options remain, today and for the foreseeable future, earthbound. Will the promise of self-driving cars be as elusive? In short,...

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