Industrial behemoth General Motors declared that driverless cars may be ready for sale within a decade. GM Chief Excecutive Rick Wagoner will devote part of his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show to driverless vehicles.
"Now the question is what does society want to do with it?" Larry Burns, GM's vice president for research and development, said. "You're looking at these issues of congestion, safety, energy and emissions. Technically there should be no reason why we can't transfer to a totally different world."
"This is not science fiction."
Actually, of course, it is. Fans remember the 1941 Camden Speedster, an early example from the imagination of Robert Heinlein.
When GM rolls out its first autonomous car, I'll check this one off my list.
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