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Question
Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.
Before long, a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles (AVs) could drive people to their destinations.
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Solution
Before long, a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles (AVs) could drive people to their destinations, couldn’t they?
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