Sentence examples for driverless transport from inspiring English sources

The era of driverless transport will soon be here.

Discussions about driverless transport are proceeding faster and further than anyone imagined – in Singapore, there are already driverless taxis.

A person has been injured by a Google self-driving car for the first ever time — and the company says that the collision shows the need for driverless transport.

The upshot is obvious: while big tech is reshaping societies and economies at speed – think of what Amazon is doing to our high streets or, looking ahead, the huge disruption that could be sown by driverless transport – it gives woefully inadequate financial help to the governments whose job it is to manage the fallout.

Ensuring driverless transport networks are resilient to hacking and other security vulnerabilities is a clear aim for us and, given the constant evolution of digital systems, security against hacking is something we will continue to review as we learn more about how the technology might work in reality.

A driverless transport trial started this month in Greenwich, south-east London, with members of the public invited to climb aboard Harry – a version of the pod vehicles used at Heathrow's Terminal 5, souped-up with lasers, sensors and £20,000 worth of autonomous technology.

Milton Keynes has announced plans to deploy a driverless public transport system. 100 pods will be introduced to the town alongside an accompanying smartphone app that can be used to book and pay for journeys.

WA has been quick to embrace autonomous vehicles, and already has two driverless public transport "intellibuses" that operate in South Perth.

But the platform culture its leaders are propagating sometimes leads one to wonder whether they genuinely foresee a future where the human providers are cut out of the equation and their technology powers a fleet of driverless vehicles transporting things rather than people.

The ethical challenge posed by driverless vehicles for transport policy is therefore to ensure that the most socially and environmentally beneficial of these possibilities is realised.

Driverless cars will transport people through the streets of Milton Keynes from 2015, in the biggest test yet of the futuristic vehicles in Britain.