Professor John Miles

The Challenge of Driverless Cars

This conference will focus on how contemporary urban life is increasingly marked and shaped by technology, and critically assess what this means for:

• existing societal norms • regulatory structures.

Context

Mobility ..... the engine room of growth

Immobility ..... the treacle of stagnation

Immobility ..... the treacle of stagnation

Economies that don’t move, don’t work

1,800 deaths

£9BN

£11BN£12BN

£3BN£9BN

Immobility ..... the treacle of stagnation

Economies that don’t move, don’t work

1,800 deaths

£9BN

£11BN£12BN

£3BN£9BN

£50BN

“i-Pad on Wheels” ……… or “Wheels on an i-Pad”?

Regulatory Structures

The Moral Dilemma

18,000

1,800,000

180,000

The Reality

18,000

1,800,000

180,000

Is it good enough, only, to be better than a human?