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Driverless Car Test Districts Are Coming

But even Google admits the technology still has a ways to go.
Mercedes-Benz recently released a design for an autonomous car so sleek it looks like a drop of mercury sliding along a road.Screenshot via Mercedes

The question of when driverless cars will arrive is going to be easier for some cities to answer than others. In the United States, they're coming very soon to the cradle of American automobiles. Ann Arbor, Michigan, a hop-skip from Detroit, is getting set to launch M City—a 32-acre testing district for connected and driverless vehicle technology, with a formal open planned for July.