Tumblr Icon RSS Icon  Military Spurring Research Into Self-
Driving Cars  By Matthew Yglesias on July 12, 2010 at 5:27 pm
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plus icon  www.wired 1  One intriguing technological possibility
in the transportation domain is the idea of “self-driving”
cars—robot cars, basically—that could drive a route without the
need for a human being to pilot the car. This kind of technology
could potentially revolutionize the urban landscape. There would
be much less need for parking in central business districts, for
example, if commuters’ cars could just drop them off and go
someplace where space is at less of a premium. Further along
those lines, you can imagine a society that featured much less
car ownership outside of rural areas, and much more dependence
on a fleet of inexpensive driverless taxis.  But instead of
reading about that, I found myself reading Spencer Ackerman’s
piece about the US Army’s efforts to develop driverless trucks
to reduce supply line vuln