Adrian said: > Not guilty, m'lud. > > Look at the subject line for this thread.
No, 'fraid not, I've so few years left in my life. > > However, I agree that driverless vehicles will require some form of > computerised routing. But that wouldn't have to be satnav. It could > be an electronic map stored on board. Unless the mapping was of the accuracy of an American cruise missile I can't see how that would work. And I'm not sure that their cruise missiles don't use the American military standard of satellite GPS for precision location on the super map. I can just imagine a driverless taxi smashing into the shop window of an Oxford Street store because its mapping was a tad adrift and it thought it had to turn. If you don't use GPS location how do you assess distance driven; internal odometer readings which are susceptible to differing calculated distance affected by tyre wear and other factors? No, it'll be a while yet methinks. Roger
