A company called Transdev debuted its autonomous shuttles in a Florida town earlier this month. Rather than test their vehicles with tourists or through a ride-sharing style service, the company is using them to take children to school. What an awful idea. The town of Babcock Ranch, a small community outside Fort Myers, is a progressive place. Its claim to fame is that it’s a completely solar-powered community with an obvious eye towards the future. Now, it’s become the first city in the world to test autonomous school shuttles. Autonomous vehicles are an exciting future-tech that will almost certainly revolutionize…

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