Robotaxis: how close is a driverless future?

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  The Economist Picture this.

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  A silvery vehicle that looks like something out of a 1990s sci-fi show cruises along a city street by night.

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  It pulls up next to a stage and outsteps a visionary leader to wild applause.

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  Welcome.

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  Welcome to the Wii Robot Party.

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  The visionary, of course, is Elon Musk.

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  And his Wii Robot Party earlier this month unveiled a new fully autonomous robo-taxi called the CyberCab,

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  designed by Musk's car company, Tesla.

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  You'll be able to take a ride in the CyberCab.

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  There's no steering wheel or pedals.

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  So I hope this goes well.

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  But the reveals didn't end there.

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  Musk also unveiled an autonomous minibus.

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  Can you imagine going down the streets and you see this coming to war too?

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  That'd be sick!

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  And then there was a platoon of humanoid,

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  optimist robots mingling amongst the crowd and serving drinks at the bar.

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  So you can have your own personal R2-D2 C3PO.

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  That Hollywood reference was apt.

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  because the whole event was staged on a Warner Brothers film set.

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