Just been reading an BBC article about them.
m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18012812
On the one hand they say that they won't tailgate, but then they envision a time when they are driving bumper to bumper. Presumably this will be when all cars are autonomous, so they can instantaneously inform the whole line of traffic to stop. I suppose then if somebody stepped out in front of the first one, all the rest would break at the same time, given 2,000 people whiplash, rather than just 2.
Much is said about how attentive the vehicles are, but I can't help but feel that there are just some situations that people can anticipate/understand, in which computers would struggle, regardless of how many fancy sensors they had.
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