(Source: Editorial in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 21, 2016)
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Everyone’s excited about self-driving cars coming to a driveway near you in a not-too-distant future, and we are happy that Uber has chosen Pittsburgh as a terrain for advanced research for the autonomous vehicles. (Though we bet a journey from, say, Troy Hill to the South Side Slopes would give conniptions to the car’s robot brain.) But before that utopian future comes to pass, let’s think kind thoughts about the original self-driving car — the passenger train — and hope that it can be made to alight in Pittsburgh more often.
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