A state-of-the-art vehicle that picks up your kids from school, and delivers them home while you finish off some work at the office. Fleets of computer-controlled vans dropping parcels off at your house. Executives sitting in comfort and catching up on some e-mail while a microchip steers them from meeting to meeting.
We have not quite reached the tipping point where self-driving cars become an everyday technology. But we are getting close enough that the traditional auto manufacturers are starting to sound very worried — and working out how to respond.
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