I'll fill in the survey when i have more time, it won't be a 3 minute job to answer the reasons- why blanks that need to be filled in with thought.

What i will say to you is don't worry about fully autonomous cars, you'll still be driving (well steering) your car in your dotage, if you can afford it and the yet to be added taxes and costs as they can get away with it, assuming the less equal than others are still allowed a car when the new puritans come of age and the more equal than others rule from their ivory towers.

As you enjoy driving and are a student if you have an interest in the roads still being allowed to be used by us proles, its in your own future interests to make sure there's some opposition to what the new rulers have planned for us.

ie if you get yourself into a position of influence (its been done before, the long march through the institutions no doubt well represented where you are, so it can be reversed), or have like minded fellow students who you think might go on to be decision makers of the future, and you will need others who can still think independently on side, unless you only want to steer some form of future white goods blob electric dodgem and i couldn't think of a motoring fate more dreadful.

Try to ensure real cars with real engines that need to be driven are still allowed on the road, and not double/treble taxed into the scrap yards, because that is where the danger lies, they're already making noises about lost fuel/ved duties and road pricing of some sort is being mooted, but we all know those cars still using petrol and Diesel will still be paying their present and soon to be increased various taxes, and will without doubt also have to pay whatever they have planned for road usage.

The future and what happens lies with people like you who still have some enthusiasm, if you don't want the awful bland future some of these really frightening people have planned for us it's for people like you to form the opposition movements within, no time like the present.

Edited by gordonbennet on 16/10/2019 at 22:08

On numerous occasions my Garmin 50LM and my wife's 51LMT has tried to take us through fields, gardens, along bridleways and across pavements where the road layout hasn't changed for probably decades so the mapping has clearly been drawn up incorrectly.

It also regularly displays an incorrect speed limit. Sometimes it's due to changes in limits that haven't been included in an update but sometimes it's clearly an error in the satnav's map.

Similarly, my Motorola (rebadged Binatone with maps copyrighted to TomTom) has incorrect junction priorities for roads which haven't changed in layout for as long as I remember.

So I think we're a long way from letting cars drive themselves.

Edited by Pinstripe on 17/10/2019 at 17:44

A couple of comments: while not huge, this survey takes well over two or three minutes to complete. It would be helpful if there was some automatic cut-off where responses of no more than 100 characters are required - as it stands a lot of time is wasted getting this right.