MOTORING ‘Grandad, is it true that in the olden days, some people's job was just steering a car?’ Let's be clear; this is not a question any of us are going to hear from our grandchildren. But it's almost certain that their grandchildren will find it hilarious that, yes, people in history had to drive cars, lorries and buses, looking out for hazards, wiggling a steering wheel – and, inevitably, given human failings, crashing.
That self-driving vehicles are coming is pretty much beyond dispute. Technologists, politicians, town planners, even lawyers, are increasingly geared up to motoring as we know it becoming a heritage skill, like driving a coach-and-four. In San Francisco, there are already driverless taxis. And our government last year committed to having self-driving cars on British roads by…
