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Chelmsford Garden Village, a housing development near London, is preparing itself for a future with autonomous cars by removing the driveways from its homes.
Or, at least, that’s what they’re planning to do eventually. The homes will be built with driveways, but there’s a plan in place to take them away if and when autonomous technology is ready.
The Chelmsford Garden Village is selling itself as “future-proof” and, according to its spatial planning manager Jeremy Potter, it will “take the street back for people.”
The plan, essentially, to store all the village’s cars at a lot on the edge of the village. If you want to go out, just summon your autonomous car and off you go. If this all sounds a little idealistic, according to Potter, it’s actually just economical.