DRIVERLESS TAXIS WILL BE A RELIEF
BRITAIN can expect driverless cars by 2021. Experts have confirmed they are ready to move from testing grounds onto the roads.
Robb Wallis, chief executive of Transport Research Laboratory, said live services would be running within two years, although there would be few individual users.
So we can soon look forward to driverless taxis, which is good news. It will remove the need to make conversation with a driver who is bored stiff with passengers in the middle of the night. No longer will we all fall into the same cliché routine. “What time did you start?” followed by: “What time do you finish?” and: “That’s a long shift.”
I had for years followed this protocol until Peter Kay used the exact same words in concert and brought the house down. Everybody it, seems, has used them at some time to attempt to strike a chord of affinity or sympathy with a taxi driver, when I suspect a decent tip would be far more welcome.