With more than 43 million people in the U.S. now 65 and older, and 10,000 more hitting that mark every day, aging Americans are a natural target market for self-driving vehicles.
Gill Pratt still vividly remembers encountering the aftermath of a collision between a boy on a bicycle and a car as he walked home from elementary school in Springfield, New Jersey.
Frenchman Jean Tirole of the University of Toulouse won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on how governments can better regulate industries that lack competition.