Sustainability and the Promise of Driverless Cars
Bottom line. Sustainability is why I'm interested in driverless cars. And It's why we should all be interested. We are, after all, facing existential challenges . Central to them all is the fact that 5 billion people (give or take) are shortly to join us in the developed world. While a wonderful thing in general, with countless fringe benefits and unseen potentials, it is almost certainly unsustainable with the transportation tools at hand. And as much as I'd like to sleep at the wheel, or no longer have to look for parking, I wouldn't care about driverless cars if they didn't have the potential to tackle real-world problems. If this technology doesn't increase our ability to deal with the very real challenges facing us today then I have no interest in it at all. Can driverless vehicles, and the driverless system they enable, make a difference? Not just an incremental one, not just a marginal improvement, but change fundamentally the way we mov...