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What happens when you put your mum in a driverless car?
Sky News' Joe Tidy takes his mother Karen — by her own account a reluctant user of technology — for a ride in a GATEway shuttle pod. It closes two years of an £8m government-backed study into public attitudes to autonomous vehicles.
Joe Tidy’s mum Karen admits she is a reluctant user of technology, so how did she cope with a car where a computer is in charge?
After two years of work on the £8m Government-backed project examining public attitudes to autonomous vehicles, hundreds of people were able to try the GATEway project’s driverless shuttle pods as they moved around the Greenwich pedestrianised areas.
By Joe Tidy, Sky News Correspondent (and his mum)