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Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison thinks the city needs to include driverless vehicles in its plans.

Atchison raised the issue at Monday’s governance and priorities committee meeting in response to a proposal to hold a public summit to present the City of Saskatoon’s growth plan.

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For the past year and a half, city hall officials have been seeking public input and writing a growth plan that covers the doubling of the city’s population to half a million people over the next 30 to 40 years.

Atchison said Monday that autonomous vehicles driven by a computer and connected to the traffic system through the Internet need to be part of the growth plan.

“If we don’t include this in our plans for the next 30 to 50 to 100 years, we will be very sorry in the future,” Atchison said.

Atchison told reporters he did not see autonomous vehicles mentioned in the growth plan, but he said it’s important the plan be the right one for Saskatoon.