More on driverless cars today in the paper. A luminary (or more likely just someone who drives cars) suggests that we need driverless roads, rather than cars. His point is that vehicles need to be helped on their way rather than helping themselves, and I can see his point. Competing commercial interest might stimulate technology, but will it be for the benefit of all of us? Autonomous vehicles competing for road space is going to take some sort of co-ordination definitely, so why not build some of the technology into the infrastructure, a sort of road-traffic control centre like we have for airspace. Just imagine if air travel didn't have air-traffic controllers and they relied on collision avoidance systems. Carnage would ensue I'm sure.
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