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Driverless vehicles will transform cities? One already has: The elevator

In 1894, some ten years before automobiles mainstreamed horizontal transportation, the Otis Elevator Company installed the world’s first push-button elevator. Arguably this small vehicle did more to reshape cities than the motor car. Roads have long been wide, but buildings only started to climb skywards with the introduction of reliably safe vertical transportation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/02/18/driverless-vehicles-will-transform-cities-one-already-has-the-elevator/#6c6d29995be8

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