Sharing the road with driverless cars
6 Minute English

Sharing the road with driverless cars

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 20, 20266 min
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Here at 6 Minute English we love discussing new tech. One of the most controversial technologies

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Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Phil. And I'm Pippa. Here at 6 Minute English we love discussing new tech. One of the most controversial technologies of recent years is driverless cars, also known as self-driving cars, autonomous cars

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or robotaxes. Many people say they wouldn't feel safe in a car without a human driver, but there are concerns from other road users too. Pedestrians, runners and cyclists, how will driverless cars interact with them? It's a problem Professor Stephen Brewster from Glasgow University has been working on. He explained more to BBC World Service programme

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Tech Life. If you're outside the vehicle right now, you can see the driver inside the vehicle, you can wave to them, they can see you, you can make eye contact. When you come to an autonomous vehicle, there's no person in the driving seat. So how do you negotiate whether they're going to go, whether they're going to

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