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Self driving cars seem like a far-out idea right now, but in the next 20 years, they will be totally common, says Dr. Henrik Christensen.
“My current prediction is that kids born today will never have to drive a car,” he said in this interview with FW:Thinking. It’s a reasonable conclusion — consider Google’s self-driving car system, which is already street-legal in Nevada, Florida, Michigan, and California. (Texas has similar legislation already in the works.)