Connor Boyack: Once autonomous vehicles hit Utah roads, traffic cops could become obsolete

There’s been a lot of chatter in recent years about the game-changing technology of self-driving cars, and rightly so. This revolutionary approach to transportation could solve many big problems, from increase mobility for the blind to a profound increase in productivity by eliminating wasted time. Most importantly, with over 40,000 deaths last year due to driving accidents — most from human error — fully autonomous cars could substantially reduce the risk involved in getting w