Today’s Solutions: January 22, 2025

In its most recent monthly self-driving car report, Google notes that it hasn’t set a timeline for rolling autonomous vehicles out to the public in any real way — there are still plenty of kinks to iron out — but it does say that “project lead Chris Urmson’s goal is to make sure his 11-year-old son doesn’t need to get a driver’s license.” Presumably, that means that Urmson would like to see these cars have a…

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