It maybe Google and Apple’s great new area of revolutionary transport development but here in Marlborough we are miles ahead in the journey towards the driverless car. At least in the number of prototype outings.
The only problem is that Marlborough’s driverless cars tend only to go in one direction, and when they do they cause damage and inconvenience to the other driver-controlled vehicles as well as a sometimes fruitless search to find the driver of the otherwise driverless car.
As we reported last week, and frequently prior to that, at lunchtime today another driverless car attempted to escape its holding position in the middle of the High Street and let gravity become the driving force.
Needless to say no-one was impressed with this latest prototype driverless car outing, least of all the owner, and the unlucky recipient of this driverless car’s advances.
Let’s hope that when the big corporations finally launch driverless cars onto the roads of the world they don’t take a leaf out of Marlborough’s pioneering advances and their cars have the inbuilt intelligence to avoid other road users and go uphill as well as down.
But at least here we can claim to be at the cutting (or should it be crashing?) edge of this new technology, miles ahead in one respect, but unfortunately some way in arrears when it comes to learning from experience.
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