"Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd enjoys a ride in a driverless taxi in Austin, Texas, as transport correspondent Gwyn Topham examines whether the technology can adapt to London's medieval streets when Waymo robotaxis arrive in the UK capital next year. They are joined by Johana Bhuiyan, a senior tech reporter at the Guardian US, who has been chronicling the ups and downs and many false starts of the autonomous car industry for a decade."
"Gwyn Topham examines whether the technology can adapt to London's medieval streets when Waymo robotaxis arrive in the UK capital next year. They are joined by Johana Bhuiyan, a senior tech reporter at the Guardian US, who has been chronicling the ups and downs and many false starts of the autonomous car industry for a decade. Will ghost taxis put a whole workforce out of a job? Will British passengers behave themselves without a human"
Helen Pidd rides a driverless taxi in Austin, Texas. Gwyn Topham examines whether the technology can adapt to London's medieval streets ahead of Waymo robotaxis arriving in the UK capital next year. Johana Bhuiyan, a senior tech reporter at the Guardian US, has chronicled a decade of ups, downs and many false starts in the autonomous car industry. Questions include whether ghost taxis will displace an entire workforce, whether British passengers will behave without a human driver in the front seat, and whether the technology can be trusted to keep people safe. Photograph credit: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy.
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