Australia could see driverless cars on the road within five years
 

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*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.*

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In his opinion, the South Australian government may have "jumped the gun a little bit" with its initial road tests 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...


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