Nissan announces plans to get a steer by wire car into showrooms in the next year.

This is yet another step towards a dull future of driverless cars.

The Car Driving experience of the future. Today!

Frankly, if you want a driverless car experience today, just get into one of those crazy “Taxi” things.

It’s like, a car, but…and this is the clever bit: You don’t have to drive it.

Witchcraft! I hear you cry. Nay dear reader. The wonders of the modern world.

Meanwhile, Volvo and other manufacturers have also been spending money like it’s going out of fashion (it is) researching  ways to get the driverless cars of the future to link up in convoy, making a kind of train. Again, you can experience this wonder of the future by just going to something called a “Railway station”. For a trifling fare of about 100 quid, you can board one of the “trains” and experience the mind-boggling future. Right now.

Or just sit in traffic on the likes of the M25 going nowhere, imagining the staggering technological exchanges and computing power at work synchronising your car with the one in front and behind, which are also sat still going nowhere fast.

Let’s just hope that the boffins working on all this are good with software, and wires and the suchlike.

Which might make for some very brave customers of certain Marques in the future…

Still, at least it could inject some spark back into otherwise dull lives. Every journey may increasingly likely be your last. Sat frantically pulling a disconnected steering wheel left and right, like a toddler in a jolly fibreglass car on a fairground roundabout whilst on the screen a message saying”Please reboot” appears on the futuristic head-up display, shortly before an abrupt interface of occupant (still called a driver?) and your metal / plastic pal of the future puts a halt to your plans for continued breathing.

Screeeech! Boom!