By James Vincent,TheVerge.com, September 19, 2016
Row, row, robot boat
Nearly a quarter of the city of Amsterdam is covered by water, with more than a hundred kilometers of canal winding their way through the municipality. No wonder then, that when the city looks to the future of transportation, it’s not interested in the self-driving cars currently being tested in American cities, but in self-driving boats instead. Today, the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) announced a new, five-year research initiative to explore the possible functions of these floating robot vehicles.
