Will Americans accept self-driving cars?

Just before the turn of the 20th century, a new and frightening technology was introduced to the American public. These "horseless carriages"—as the first motorized vehicles were called—were deemed loud, dirty, and dangerous, and a nervous public was slow to embrace them. An 1897 magazine article described a first car ride in this way:

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