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Who will be a vendor of those cars? It seems to me that it's clear that driverless cars are the future, which is going to become real very soon. Any progressiv
by smikhanov 12y ago
Who will be a vendor of those cars?
It seems to me that it's clear that driverless cars are the future, which is going to become real very soon. Any progressive government would (and should) allow such testing, even given the inflexibility of the state's bureaucratic machine. Allowing is an easy part. The hard part is actually building those cars and to my knowledge no UK firm does this at the moment.
- bluthru 12y agoMy guess is that a service like ZipCar will retrofit vehicles since car manufacturers do not have an incentive to reduce car ownership.
- jarek 12y agoSome car manufacturers will be perfectly happy to cannibalize the business, see e.g. Daimler's car2go
- timthorn 12y agoLots of the fundamental research is being done in the UK. Both academic (eg at Oxford) and also industry led. The fact that no major consumer automotive marques are British doesn't mean there isn't a very strong auto industry in the country.
- smikhanov 12y agoI mean more of a "who will build the technology to allow those cars be driverless", not who will build the car bodies themselves.