Hawaii should prepare now for driverless vehicles

By Reps. Gene Ward and K. Mark Takai

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 22, 2013

~~<p>Robots are building cars, fighting wars and vacuuming our floors, and though they’re still not quite ready to drive us to work, they’re getting closer.</p>
<p>We’ve heard of self-parking cars, but things are moving rapidly toward self-driving cars. For example, Nissan’s new electric Leaf will now be able to park itself without a person being inside the vehicle.</p>
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Robots are building cars, fighting wars and vacuuming our floors, and though they’re still not quite ready to drive us to work, they’re getting closer.

We’ve heard of self-parking cars, but things are moving rapidly toward self-driving cars. For example, Nissan’s new electric Leaf will now be able to park itself without a person being inside the vehicle. Login for more...