As Milton Keynes, amongst other cities,  begins trials of driverless cars, you can only wonder where this one is going next.

Take a seat...he's driving

Apparently in these trials,  some of these ‘cars’ will actually be running on the pavement. Good eh?
Why not try the same thing yourself. Drive down the pavement steering with your knees, whilst reading a newspaper.  Passers by will hardly believe the vision of the shining future that you portray. Well, those that don’t get mowed down anyway.
You see, I’m not sure this isn’t just unnecessary technology solving problems the wrong way.
If people want to get somewhere without driving,  then how about investing in loads more trains, buses, and even subsidised taxis. That don’t cost a fucking fortune to use. It would do the same thing.  Now. Without supercomputers, and laser guidance,  and myriad hilarious accidents in the name of progress.
Will these driverless cars fix the broken roads?  No.
So you can sit in the comfort of a driverless pod… on a shafted road, being slowly repaired by surly men, in a traffic jam. Maybe to help transition, the pods could moan on endlessly in a speak n spell / Stephen Hawkings voice about the traffic. Oh… my…fucking…God…that…cunt…just…cut…me…up…When…will…this…fucking…roundabout…be…finished…