The buzz: Patience is a virtue…They’ve been arriving since the 1930s. But when will one (or more) autonomous vehicles be in your garage? It depends on the roadblocks ahead. Relatively easy issues: technology and standards tweaks, societal adoption, safety-proofing, benefits clarification. The complex, costly challenge: existing infrastructures must be developed, modified and well-financed to support the technology of driverless vehicles. Are you patient? The experts speak. Heather Ashton, IDC: “The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city” (Oliver
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