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Why do you think it's a way for governments to control our lives? I've read loads about driverless cars - and interviewed some of the technologists behind them - but I've not seen anything to suggest they're going to be state-owned, You're the first person ever to mention the possibility

There's an article in this week's New Scientist about driverless cars. Interestingly, the article thinks the only really tricky problem is human interaction ie how do driverless cars react with driven ones given the amount of communication that goes on between drivers (hand signals, eye...

You do know that, as of last summer, Google has tested driverless cars on 700,000 km of public road - much of it rural (and in the US, a country with less mobile penetration than we have). No-one pretends that's near complete - Google says five years before they're fully functional, as I said...

Sorry if I misunderstand. Yes, that's exactly the point I was making that the business model will take a lot of time working and there will be changes to society too - for example, managing rush hour prices will be controlled by different prices, as you point out, this will be a lot easier. But...

You can never tell :lolol: But you do raise an interesting point: in a world where no-one owns a car, how do companies market them? What's the difference between calling up a car from Acme Motors and Fly-by-Night Inc? That will be one of the biggest problems facing manufacturers: I'm not sure...

As I pointed out earlier, people are completely barking up the wrong tree here. Individuals won't own driverless cars - that's not the point. The lead in this area is Google, a company that's all about delivering services, not products. You log on to Gmail, you don't have a mail server sitting...

Make it 20 - 10 years to sort out the technology and 10 years to sort out the bureaucracy (insurance particularly) I can't see many individuals buying one: why would you need to? You use them for journeys that you need to make and pay per kilometre travelled: cheaper, more efficient, no worries...