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Driverless Cars - A Road to Nowhere?

Geoff Riley

30th December 2017

The transport economist Christian Wolmar has a new book out from the London Publishing Partnership exploring the hype and the reality of the rise of autonomous vehicles.

Wolmar is arguably the UK’s leading railway expert and transport historian and therefore eminently well-placed to understand the speed at which driverless cars might become mainstream. Diane Coyle has described Wolmar as "trenchantly sceptical about the techno-hype."

Aha, the latest ‘Perspective’ hot off the presses - by @christianwolmar https://t.co/NvciJxkvmZ pic.twitter.com/uMH10GlZc4

— Diane Coyle (@DianeCoyle1859) December 21, 2017

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