Driverless cars appear to be on the Horizon. The economist predicts that “by the 2020s some cars that drive themselves most or all of the time could well be in volume production.”
Lib Dem blogger Mark Pack argues this will have big consequences for public policy
the speed with which driverless cars are advancing means the transport world by the time a big project like Crossrail2 or HS2 is completed is likely to be very different.
Already driverless busses look set to make a serious debut in the UK by 2015, thanks to the Milton Keynes initiative.
They may therefore start appearing as a regular feature on those city’s roads before the next set of general election manifestos for the main parties even go to print.
Given the speed of their development on the one hand and the long development times for big transport projects on the other, I…
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