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Untrustwor­thy tech

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Self-driving cars require a huge amount of trust in the technology, but since when has technology been foolproof? From the rain-sensing wipers that we have had for years but still override, through adaptive cruise control which I find unnerving and always end up turning off, to the main beam function which senses oncoming lights a fraction too late… it’s a long list. I have experience­d the emergency braking system in my 911 sharply applying the brakes as it picked up the presence of a car I was pulling out to overtake.

It is difficult to imagine an autonomous system dealing with the vagaries of day-to-day motoring without fault but I suppose it will be argued that even less than perfect technologi­es are an improvemen­t over untrustwor­thy homo sapiens. N Georgiadis

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