TY  - GEN
AU  - Wolmar,Christian
TI  - Driverless cars : : on a road to nowhere 
T2  - Perspectives
SN  - 9781907994753
U1  - 388.342 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - London Publishing Partnership in association with Enlightenment Economics
KW  - Automated vehicles
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Automobiles
KW  - Automatic control
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Automobile industry and trade
KW  - History
N1  - The myth of motoring freedom -- The hard sell -- The triple revolution -- What can cars do now? -- Bumps in the road -- Who will drive the Queen?
N2  - "Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. Almost daily there are media stories about how we will soon all be able to rip up our driving licences, sit in the back seat and let the car take us around.

But is this really going to happen?

Christian Wolmar has dug behind the hype and found a very different story. We are nowhere near this driverless utopia. Indeed it may prove to be impossible to reach. And even if it were achievable, does anyone want it? Far from reducing traffic and pollution, millions of zombie cars on the roads would make them worse.

Wolmar looks at the technical and other difficulties that make this driverless future a very uncertain proposition. He finds that it is the tech companies and the auto manufacturers who are desperate to get us out of the driving seat, and argues that far from making the  roads safer, driverless cars may well make them more dangerous.

This entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future’s purported benefits."
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