On the Soapbox: A driverless commercial future
Google expects driverless cars to be on the road within five years. So far much of the focus has been around privately owned vehicles, but how will the commercial sector respond when technology takes over?
This is not as far away as you might think - NASA and Nissan are already designing autonomous vehicles for the transportation of materials, goods and payloads, and
mining giant Rio Tinto has been using
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