How Much Do You Really Trust The Autonomous Car Then

When human life becomes the ultimate price, what really is an autonomous car worth to you?

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Does anybody else recall hearing of those days of the motorcar when the gentleman used to walk a few feet ahead of the car, waving a red flag, warning of its approach?

No?

Well, here you are in glorious technicolor for you:

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This little gem comes from the ‘Red Flag’ (Locomotive Act 1865.)

155 years ago, Lord Palmerston’s Liberal government passed a law that, according to one writer, “effectively stopped innovation in powered road transport in Britain for over a quarter of a century”. The Locomotive Act 1865 became known as the Red Flag Act, thanks to its extraordinary stipulation that any self-propelled road vehicle had to be preceded by a person walking at least 60 yards ahead, carrying a red flag.

The Act followed intense lobbying from horse-drawn carriage operators and the public railway industry. And in a rather severe response to the dangers posed by road vehicles, the Red Flag Act also brought into force the…