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“Austin is the Kitty Hawk of driverless cars.”
– Mayor Steve Adler, after learning through Alphabet’s autonomous car subsidiary Waymo that Steve Mahan was the first to embark on a driverless car trip on Oct. 20, 2015
This article appears in December 16 • 2016.
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