Driverless Cars On a Road to Nowhere - Perspectives

Driverless cars are the future - just around the corner. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. But closer inspection reveals that we are much further from that driverless utopia than we are led to believe by newspaper headlines and by the hype from firms with vested interests. In a post-Covid-19 economic environment motor manufacturers now face bigger problems. Christian Wolmar argues that autonomous cars are the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Even if the many technical difficulties that stand in the way of achieving a driverless future can be surmounted, autonomous cars are not the best way to address the problems of congestion and pollution caused by our long obsession with the private car. This entertaining polemic sets out the m

ISBN:	9781913019211
Publisher:	London Publishing Partnership
Imprint:	London Publishing Partnership
Published date:	30 Sep 2020
DEWEY:	629.222
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 143
Weight:	259g
Height:	196mm
Width:	130mm
Spine width:	13mm

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