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Driving into the Future. Last week we woke up to the fact that autonomous cars could be with us sooner than we thought. That was the message from John Krafcik, chief executive of Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google - or Alphabet as we must learn to call it. At the Web Summit in Lisbon he announced that fully self-driving Waymo cars with nobody behind the wheel were now in operation in Phoenix in Arizona. Now, there will be a Waymo engineer in the back seat - and the cars will only operate on designated routes. But this still looks like a big step on the road to the autonomous driving future. It is not just Silicon Valley making big claims about the progress of this technology. Image copyrightREUTERS Image captionWaymo's autonomous cars are on the roads Former General Motors executive  Bob Lutz made a stir this week  by predicting that the era of the human-driven automobile would be over in 20 years. He says there will still be a few sports cars and off-road v...