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Blog: Autonomous vehicles - whose claim is it anyway?

A driver has been killed behind the wheel of a self-driving Tesla Model S

Autonomous vehicles are regularly in the press heralding a new era of transport and social inclusion. While a fully autonomous world is an exciting prospect, most commentators will readily admit that it may be at least 20 years before we can call an autonomous vehicle to collect us following a night out.

It is perhaps the middle ground, where vehicles are becoming increasingly autonomous with driver assistance features such as traffic jam assistance and automatically commanded steering that will post

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