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Give Way to Droids, Bots, and Drones: The Driverless City Will Look Like This

Future Shock

An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles. Will 'autonomous vehicles' really make our cities safer, cleaner, and less congested?

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Matt Flynn/Cooper Hewitt

Technological innovations are often initially met with puzzlement. When personal computers were first widely marketed to the public in the 1980s, some people couldn’t imagine why they would buy one.

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