Driverless cars risk road safety – Yorkshire Post Letters

SO our beloved Government has agreed to a trial of driverless cars on our roads. Why?

Can anyone please explain to me the advantages of having autonomous vehicles on our roads? A driver, or passenger, is present in the vehicle and can take over at any time, so what is the USP?

As a long term user of our highways, on two wheels and four, I worry that such vehicles will only add to the present accident statistics, especially when mixing with driven vehicles.

As any regular user of the motorway/ dual carriageway system will atest, the general standard of driving in the UK is poor, bordering on dangerous.

Drivers, oblivious of their surroundings, in right hand lanes for mile after mile, causing other road users to either line up in other, left hand lanes, or commit illegal manoeuvres by undertaking. Manoeuvre, signal (if at all) mirror, appears to be the order of the day in many cases. Drivers with the mobile clamped to their “lug ole”, steering with their knees while eating a pie, we’ve all seen behaviour like this at times, so how will these autonomous vehicles react to these situations? I honestly cannot see what advantage they bring to the table. Please stop this nonsense now.

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