At some point in the early 1900s, cars started showing up among all the horses in Austin. It must have been a strange time, fraught with concerns about how vehicles and horses would share the streets.
Somehow, we got through it — although, occasionally, you can still spot a horse downtown.
But a new dynamic is taking shape now. While autonomous vehicles are nothing new for Austin — they’ve been tested here for nearly a decade — many people are still being caught off guard when a car with no one in it cruises by.
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