spectrum.ieee.org: By Willie D. Jones

Driverless cars aim to give each passenger a customized ride

A snaking array of steel pillars outside the newly renovated Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport will, by the end of next year, hold up a guideway upon which little automated electric vehicles will shuttle passengers and airport workers back and forth between the terminal and a distant parking lot. In doing so, the pillars will also be supporting a transportation movement decades in the making. [ read more ]