Mark And Pete

Driverless cars are coming to London — and not in a distant sci-fi future sense. Real streets, real traffic, real pedestrians stepping into the road while staring lovingly into their phones. With Waymo preparing autonomous vehicle rollouts, the capital may soon become one of the biggest live experiments in artificial intelligence transport ever attempted in the UK.In this episode of Mark and Pete, we explore what the arrival of self-driving cars really means, beyond the glossy headlines. Are autonomous vehicles genuinely safer than human drivers? What happens when algorithms replace judgement? And who is responsible when a driverless car makes the wrong decision — the passenger, the programmer, the manufacturer, or the invisible data model trained on millions of previous journeys?We look at the deeper cultural shift behind automation: convenience slowly eroding competence, responsibility being outsourced, and society drifting into a world where humans stop making decisions because machines make them faster. D