Episode 27: How could self-driving cars change the world? - Part 2
The Received Wisdom
Why Driverless Technology Is So Important in the Automotive Sector
I'm actually very interested in why driverless is such a big thing in the automotive sector. What is it about this technology that the auto companies think drivers want? Because they clearly must think it's something that we want, otherwise they wouldn't be pouring billions of pounds into it. The road space in the centre of London is contested space. There are pedestrians, but not just pedestrians. We have office workers coming out of their offices at lunchtime. They're thinking about going and getting a sandwich. You've got tourists who are wandering around looking up. A whole bunch of people not looking where they're going. It's a very difficult environment to see how a vehicle is going to navigate
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