Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: someone’s published a study on self-driving cars and the effect they’ll have on transportation. In the past year alone, we’ve seen plenty of those studies. Some show that people are afraid of self-driving vehicles (even though they’re totally onboard with semi-autonomous features like adaptive cruise control and braking assist, and they’d be fine with cars from Google and Apple, which would be largely self-driving.) Other studies predict
Study: By 2030, self-driving cars could cut car ownership by 80 percent
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