Self-driving cars - is all the Government attention justified?

Is the idea of autonomously-controlled private cars on normal roads either feasible or desirable – and should the government be cheer-leading this field of transport development, asks David Metz. Here he considers the technological, legal, regulatory and public benefit issues, and can’t find much of a case for spending either public money or private investment on the concept, except for perhaps offering new shared use transport solutions in carefully managed situations.