More on driverless cars today. There are 3 different article in the Guardian concerning driverless cars. One is about unmanned 'pods' at Heathrow, a fairly low risk arena to test them I would have thought. Another is from the USA where a town in Arizona have been selected to test 500 of Google's vans. You volunteer to have one, then 'drive' it, well, you actually sit next to another person who is employed by Google (actually a subsidiary called Waymo) to oversee the software. This means you don't need a driving license, be physically able etc. so quite an interesting development on the road to tarmacadam utopia. The 3rd article was the ambition to drive a fleet of autonomous vehicles from London to Oxford by 2018. Evidently they will have reached Level 4 by then.
So now we know.
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