Milton Keynes is currently the host city for a set of driverless car trials funded indirectly by the U.K. government — the most ambitious testing yet staged in the world.
If all goes as planned, by 2018, Milton Keynes’ downtown will be served by an on-demand, publicly run system of 30 to 40 driverless two-seater pod cars, which will allow residents to travel between any two points in the city’s downtown without navigating or reacting to obstacles themselves.
— nextcity.org
For a glimpse of the LUTZ Pathfinder autonomous vehicles in action, check out the video below:
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This is really interesting, I wonder how it will go. I tend to think that, in the US at least, we will always have roads and personal vehicles simply because the investment in road infrastructure is so enormous we'll never escape it. US roads just covered in on-demand self-driving vehicles is a kinda cool possibility. I mean, it's not jetpacks, but it's close.
(Also you can't read or write an article on anarcho-capitalism and the failure of the social sciences while piloting your own jetpack, so there's that.)
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