Public fear of autonomous vehicles: A problem we can’t just ignore
Autonomous Vehicles in Fiction
When I was in high school, I was fortunate to have a few English teachers who were interested in dystopian science fiction. Automated vehicle systems weren’t a big topic of conversation in the 90s and 00s. In fact, they weren’t a thing people really talked about at all once Knight Rider went off the air. Other than Knight Rider’s KITT, my first exposure to even the idea of a car that drives itself came from a 1951 short story by Ray Bradbury, called “The Pedestrian.”