I am just working on my next series of articles exclusive to Automechanika. It is in six parts and will be called: The Rise of the Autonomous Machines. Here is how it starts - what do you think?
At a friend’s BBQ a few years ago, I was making conversation with a stranger, as you do. Nice chap who did something financial that I didn’t understand (or want to). After he learnt that I was a writer and that I was interested in all automotive technologies, electric and automated driving vehicles in particular, he took a deep breath and was off! What he didn’t ‘know’ about autonomous cars, as he called them, was not worth mentioning. Actually, perhaps what he did know wasn’t worthy of mention either. My point here, is how absolutely convinced he was that fully autonomous cars would be on the roads in a year or two. This was because, apparently, they were already so far advanced.
I disagreed…