One of Google’s self-driving cars might have crashed this week,but it’s a mere blip on the road to seeing them transform our urban landscape
Our cities must have been dreadfully foul and smelly before the motor car. At the London Transport Museum they have a display of two horse-drawn vehicles. Pre-recorded voices fabricate (to make up, invent) it sound like the model horses are chatting to each other, and there’s fake horse dung on the floor for additional giggles. Whole sub-industries flourished in clearing up the straw and excrement clogging up our 19th-century streets. It must have been particularly grim when it rained or snowed. Related: Google self-driving car strikes public bus in California, and accident report says Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com