MIT’s Senseable City Lab is working on captainless robotic “Roboats” to ferry around passengers and cargo—and ease traffic on local roads.
Confidence in the future of self-driving cars took a hit earlier this year when a robotic Uber mowed down a woman as she crossed a street in Tempe, Arizona. The ride-sharing service shut down its test program in the state after the March fatality as debate erupted over the technology and how to regulate it.