How self-driving shuttles could enable car-free living in the suburbs

How self-driving shuttles could enable car-free living in the suburbs

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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/how-self-driving-shuttles-could-enable-car-free-living-in-the-suburbs/

RESTON, VIRGINIA—A Boston based startup called Optimus Ride has launched a new self-driving vehicle service in the Washington DC suburb of Reston, Virginia. On Monday, I traveled to the site, a 45-minute drive from my home in the nation's capital, to see it first-hand.

Since August, the company has been ferrying passengers between a Fannie May office building at the site and an overflow parking lot a few minutes' walk away. But Optimus Ride has much larger ambitions for the site.