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ESSAY<br />
E<br />
arlier this month, I took a trip<br />
in a driverless car made by a<br />
Silicon Valley start-up. Despite<br />
the vehicle’s autonomous capabilities,<br />
the creator hadn’t yet got hold of the<br />
necessary paperwork to relinquish<br />
control of the steering, braking<br />
and acceleration to the enormous<br />
computer in the boot. And so my<br />
driverless car had a driver. It was an<br />
odd case of bureaucracy one,<br />
technology nil. However, as I watched<br />
the infotainment screen showing the<br />
car’s “brain” in action – the artificially<br />
intelligent vision system that was<br />
detecting and categorising objects<br />
and obstacles around it while planning<br />
the optimal route – my own brain had<br />
some time to reflect on the city of the<br />
future, and how new innovations and<br />
technology can make living in it<br />
smarter, greener and easier.<br />
DRIVERLESS IN THE CITY<br />
FROM AUTOMATED ROAD RAGE RELIEF TO BUZZING BOD-PODS: SMART<br />
TECHNOLOGY WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT LIFE IN THE CITY<br />
WORDS: Olivia Solon ILLUSTRATION: Mario Wagner<br />
76 THE JAGUAR