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Blog: Why perfection is unobtainable for driverless cars

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Trials for driverless cars are moving up in the UK, while they have stalled in some parts of the US due to reported deaths. Mark Hemsted, partner at Clyde & Co, argues that the public looking for perfection in this area could be misguided.

What do Milton Keynes, the West Midlands and the A1 corridor have in common? Answer: they’re all on the list as sites for the first on-road trials of fully autonomous cars in the UK this year. In fact

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