They will be good news for the recovery service and bodyshops as the electronic sensors or processing units start to fail.

I have no doubt our children will be part of convoys of these things on the highways though - at least they will be able to play with their phones or laptops legally on the move then.

Hopefully they will be hydrogen powered by then.

Several manufacturers have working models under evaluation trials they are very close to market, below is Fords ideas for example. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia...ng-in-2021.html

We have had autonomous aircraft flights in UK air space already so the technology is available.

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