The Impact of Autonomous Vehicle Innovation

With the rise of self-driving technologies, there is great speculation as to how this new world of autonomous transportation will impact the economy and society. Critics claim that industries will suffer, millions of people will lose their jobs, and society will overall be worse off. Optimists predict that along with new technologies will come new industries and new jobs, and with the benefits of self-driving cars, there will be a ripple of benefits into other aspects of life. Before exploring these different possibilities of what the future may be, let's take a journey to the past. Here we find civilizations at war, and one of the earliest forms of transportation: the chariot.