Driverless cars will change the way we think of car ownership

Posted on January 25, 2016

By Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology

The transition to fully driverless cars is still several years away, but vehicle automation has already started to change the way we are thinking about transportation, and it is set to disrupt business models throughout the automotive industry.

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