People have been imagining driverless cars since at least 1958, when Walt Disney Co aired Magic Highway USA. It's been six decades, and we're still talking about them.
Initially, evolution in transport had been a product of necessity: As we moved from horse-drawn carriages to horseless ones, from steam engines to internal combustion, each development improved distance and speed. Then came luxuries like comfort and fuel efficiency.
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