2016 may be remembered as the year humans realized giving up the steering wheel is an OK idea after all: In the past 12 months, Uber launched a fleet of robo-taxis in Pittsburgh, Google finally started talking about how to commercialize its autonomous tech, and an Otto truck hauled 50,000 cans of Budweiser across Colorado with an empty driver's seat.
But Uber and Google Waymo aren't the only ones racing to rethink the way humans zip around the planet. In the past year, a fresh set of federal guidelines unleashed the commercial potential of drones (with a few caveats). And the federal Department of Transportation pushed cities to plan for a world where congestion is worse, infrastructure’s broken-er, and more people than ever before are trying to move around.
So before you honk in the New Year, take a look back at the top five transportation moments of 2016.
