BOSTON – While Silicon Valley is almost synonymous with anything tech-related, Greater Boston is carving out a niche for itself in tech innovations for the cars of the future. Several large projects and companies working on making self-driving cars a thing of the present call Beantown home. And Woburn-based Terrafugia is taking flying cars out of the pages of science fiction and into reality.
Autonomous vehicles (or self-driving cars), while technologically feasible at this time, still leave a lot of questions unanswered. For example, how does an autonomous vehicle know when to brake for a pedestrian who steps into the street?
Home prices are skyrocketing in South Boston, almost doubling in less than 15 years. What has been a boon for developers, though, has been cause for concern for long-time residents, who fear for the loss of the town as they once knew it.
According to a report in South Boston Online earlier this year, "the median sales price of a South Boston property in 2015 was $599,000, according to The Warren Group. In 2002, the median price was $300,000…. "(o)f those properties sold in 2015, 709 were condominiums and 77 were one-family residences."
