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‘Grandkids won’t learn to drive’: New driverless car push in Australia

Nick Bonyhady
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San Francisco | Authorities are laying the groundwork for self-driving cars in Australia as autonomous taxi services expand in the United States, creating new transport modes but threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Residents in the American cities of San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles can already book driverless taxis from Google’s Waymo division via an app similar to Uber.

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Nick Bonyhady is a technology writer for the Australian Financial Review, based in Sydney. He is a former technology editor, industrial relations and politics reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age. Connect with Nick on Twitter. Email Nick at nick.bonyhady@afr.com

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