Robot car lobby wants humans off the road

US regulators have given driverless cars the green light: the next step is a driverless road

Human error causes 94 per cent of road fatalities, according to US safety regulators

New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driver.

While banning people from driving may seem like something from a Kurt Vonnegut short story, it’s the logical endgame of a technology that could dramatically reduce – or even eliminate – the 1.25 million road deaths a year globally. Human error is ...