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04-18-2016, 02:01 PM
Australia could see driverless cars on the road within five years
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SYDNEY, Australia — South Australia may have gotten a head start (http://mashable.com/2015/07/21/self-driving-cars-australia/)*with trials in 2015, but New South Wales (NSW) is also committing to a driverless car future.*
Automated cars without drivers could be on NSW roads within five years, the state's minister for transport, Andrew Constance, predicted at a summit on the future of transport in Sydney Monday.*"We're going to have driverless cars on our streets, in our suburbs," he told reporters.*
SEE ALSO: Aussie commuters could soon catch the bus using a credit card (http://mashable.com/2016/04/17/nsw-contactless-payments/)
In his opinion, the South Australian government may have "jumped the gun a little bit" with its initial road tests (http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/11/07/driverless-cars-trialled-south-australia) last year.*To support its own rollout of driverless cars, the NSW State Government an**unced the creation of a Smart In**vation Centre in western Sydney. The facility will host research on the impact of emerging transport and road tech**logy. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/nsw-driverless-cars/)
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SYDNEY, Australia — South Australia may have gotten a head start (http://mashable.com/2015/07/21/self-driving-cars-australia/)*with trials in 2015, but New South Wales (NSW) is also committing to a driverless car future.*
Automated cars without drivers could be on NSW roads within five years, the state's minister for transport, Andrew Constance, predicted at a summit on the future of transport in Sydney Monday.*"We're going to have driverless cars on our streets, in our suburbs," he told reporters.*
SEE ALSO: Aussie commuters could soon catch the bus using a credit card (http://mashable.com/2016/04/17/nsw-contactless-payments/)
In his opinion, the South Australian government may have "jumped the gun a little bit" with its initial road tests (http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/11/07/driverless-cars-trialled-south-australia) last year.*To support its own rollout of driverless cars, the NSW State Government an**unced the creation of a Smart In**vation Centre in western Sydney. The facility will host research on the impact of emerging transport and road tech**logy. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/nsw-driverless-cars/)
More about New South Wales (http://mashable.com/category/new-south-wales/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Driverless Cars (http://mashable.com/category/driverless-cars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/JjXEeo-mE-M