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UK transport: do we really want the technologists in control?

Don Mathew, Bangor, North Wales LL57
29 September 2017
 

Having spent much of the summer travelling I was keen to catch up with transport issues via back numbers of LTT. Unfortunately, much of this subject seems to have been taken over by geeks and fantasists. Here are some topics that particularly caught my eye:

Platoons of driverless lorries. This has to be the most stupid idea in decades. How is anyone to overtake? How will they deal with roundabouts? What is the point?

Driverless cars. Is there any sign that the public actually want these? In...

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