Technology

Paving the way to self-driving vehicles

MIT's test cars are designed “to detect the well-being of the driver.”
August 19, 2013 05:00 AM
Older drivers

The number of older Americans with driver's licenses rose from 2007 to 2011.
  
Age groupChange
55-6414%
65-7416%
75+5%
  
Source: University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Self-driving vehicles have the potential to make immobility among elderly people and those with disabilities a thing of the past, experts say.

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