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Fishkind Conversations: Autonomous Vehicles "Cruise" Onto Florida Roads

Image: A Google autonomous vehicle in 2016. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Image: A Google autonomous vehicle in 2016. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Economic analyst Hank Fishkind says we’re about to see revolutionary changes on our roadways, as autonomous cars cruise into our everyday lives.

Fishkind tells 90.7’s Nicole Darden Creston that Florida could “ride” the incoming trend toward economic benefits. And he says, in some ways, the future is already here.

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Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined WMFE in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.