The Acceleration of Autonomous Vehicle Applications Due to COVID-19
Hint: It’s not focused on personal transportation.
Autonomous vehicles have long been a mainstay of both outlandish fiction and legitimate research, in some interpretations predating the invention of the car itself. By some accounts, full self-driving capabilities would be a major boon in terms of safety and promises to narrow wealth-based gaps in good access to transportation. Perhaps the impact could be as significant as the past adoption of safety bicycles, which expanded the distance one could travel by 3 to 4 times or more, without incurring the costs of owning a horse (or car) and the facilities to care for them.