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1971: DRIVERLESS CARS and the FUTURE OF MOTORING | BBC News | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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3:51Now PlayingBritain's roads are among the most crowded in the world, and it seems inevitable that in the future drivers will have to be more closely regimented. At the Road Research Lab in Berkshire, boffins are experimenting with some techniques and technology that might be commonplace to motorists by the end of the century.
These include subterranean electric cables and on-board 'black-box' recorders - to assist with toll-paying and traffic regulation, public trials to find the most efficient means of getting vehicles on and off of the Channel Tunnel trains (optimistically scheduled for completion in 1978) and - most excitingly of all - tests of a driverless car.
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