“The Revolution…Will Not Be Driverless”

Amid all the hype about autonomous/self-driving cars, here’s a corrective from Christian Wolmar, writing in the New Statesmen. As Wolmar says, the danger is that seeing driver-free cars as a panacea risks diverting attention from the urgent task of improving public transport…and getting people out of their cars. Which would be better for all of us.

Quote of the Week

“One day, when driverless cars arrive, we may marvel that we ever let distracted, shortsighted and occasionally drunk humans pilot large metal projectiles.”

Simon Kuper, Financial Times Magazine, 10^th July 2015

It’s worth reading the article, which compares the (huge) death toll from road crashes, which we know how to stop, with the (much smaller) death toll from terrorism – which is a lot harder to prevent.