For Richard Bishop, the idea of a driverless vehicle is nothing new.
“The first time I was in an automated vehicle was in 1991 in an Army Humvee on the land of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. They were doing some research, we trundled along over some grass at about 2.5 mph,” the industry consultant said during a speech Wednesday at a Bismarck conference run by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute out of North Dakota State University on driverless — or autonomous — vehicles.
The technology has grabbed headlines as a number of cities across the country have put it to use for taxi services. But autonomous vehicles (AVs) are also seeing a big growth in their use in industry…