Robocabs: How Long Before you Ditch Your Car for a Driverless Electric Taxi?

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The real world is finally catching up with 1950s sci-fi. Luke Jones, CC BY

Trend-spotters may have declared the car is dead for 20-somethings in central London or Paris but among the rest of humanity sales of the ubiquitous gas-guzzler continue to climb. It seems however environmental we may wish to be, owning a set of wheels is just too convenient to give up.