This autonomous taxi boat could turn urban rivers into roads

Urban waterways like rivers and canals have gone from essential travel and trading corridors to urban afterthoughts. They’re used by freighters or limited ferry services, but are otherwise mostly forgotten and largely untouched by the millions who live on their shores. A new autonomous urban boat design concept suggests a future where these urban rivers—from the Thames in London to the East River in New York to the canals of Amsterdam—can be reintegrated into the way people live in...