Oxford University's driverless car guru wouldn't trust his kids in one...yet
The University of Oxford’s driverless car guru Paul Newman has admitted that he wouldn’t trust his kids in an autonomous vehicle yet, but remains bullish about a near-future where we wonder why we ever drove ourselves. Newman, speaking at the recording of ‘The Engineers: The Rise of the Robots’ a BBC Worldwide production hosted at London’s Science Museum, is Professor of Information Engineering and heads up Oxford Robotics Institute at the University. Asked by the audience whether he would trust his children to a current driverless car he answered in the negative. “No...not yet,” he said but explained that the whole concept is coming on in leaps and bounds and that we were close to a world where driving was as rare a skill as horse-riding. “I think eventually we will have vehicles that can drive themselves and the expectation is that you won't want to drive,” he said. “I think it might be..become a skill like horse-riding where it’s rare to have that in some cities, but that’s