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Letter: Who will accept ownerless cars?

Published 16 March 2016

From David Pipe

Emily Wolfe suggests that driverless cars could provide environmental benefits by encouraging a shift to ownerless cars (Letters, 5 March). Suburban streets are currently lined with cars that are driverless for days on end. Why should the desire to own cars used only once or twice a week change, because the latest cars are robotic?

London, UK

Issue no. 3065 published 19 March 2016

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