To be fair I can see where Alasdair was coming from. I am also deaf (totally on the right, partially on the left) and have finally been given hearing aids after 30+ years of struggling. I find that I'm taking in massively more information now I have them, but I was always acutely aware of my shortcoming and compensated best as I could. For example I would always wind down the windows at junctions on country roads. There was talk of emergency vehicles, but a speeding biker will be heard long before s/he is seen, especially in poor conditions. Just one example I can think of.
Back to the OP, I like it lol. I'm instinctively resistant to autonomous cars, and think modern cars are already far too cosseting. That said, after some reflection I think that provided our proper cars were always available (the more cylinders the better) getting the morons into robotically controlled safety mobiles can only be a good thing for the rest of us...
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