Driverless cars will be on your roads before very long

Cars can be very dangerous so the safety of pedestrians and other road users cannot be ignored

Uber and Ola are huge taxi companies but they own very few cars. Their highly sophisticated systems of fleet management and GPS-based navigation through city traffic, however, make them so easily available and inexpensive that they have revolutionised personal transportation in nearly a thousand major towns worldwide. As a result, many people don’t need to keep a car any longer. However, a small car with a driver can only carry three passengers and if the driver can be eliminated, it will increase the car's passenger capacity by 25 per cent — enough to greatly improve a taxi’s earning power or