The human obsession with self-driving cars goes back a long way. General Motors unveiled the concept of autonomous cars in the 1939 World's Fair. Since then, self-driving cars have become fixtures in sci-fi movies, emblematic of technological and social progress.
This fiction, very rapidly, is becoming fact. Even three to four years ago, when Google started experimenting with self-driving cars, it seemed that it would be a while before that technology hit the road. Things couldn't have been further from reality.
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