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They come from the days of saddle bags when no-one in Britain used panniers, and there were no bungees back then either. .

Doubly so. I call for a taxi and it has an empty trip to get to me. Then at the other end it has an empty trip to get back to base or to where there are fare prospects. Most of their mileage, as much as two thirds, isn't on useful journeys, all of my private car mileage is. Taxis increase...

Growing French beans, as they'll be paying for it. ;) .

We could do a Trump: "We're gonna build a bridge, and it's gonna be a bigly bridge, the best bridge ever. And we're gonna make the French pay for it". .

The world is full of poor people, and many of them are within the EU. I can't help all of them so I don't understand your obsession with South African poor. It seems it really is only about price as you first said. As for mentioning corrupt leaders, that's just silly in this context. Yes...

We've got lanes that are used by fast traffic dodging congestion on the main routes and the wildlife suffers. It's the trucks that get the pheasants when they can't gain enough height in time. There's little injury, I think they die of shock more than anything. .

The greater good of the EU by keeping the money inside rather than exporting it. Like others we have aid programs to look after areas of need. You are the one ************, all you were on about was price, but now you pretend to be concerned about the African farmers to suit your argument. At...

As it happens they can't change, when I said indisputable it was a fact, a driverless taxi could not do for me what a car does, ever. Sunday 8th October, conducting fungi walk in our nature reserve. Elderly man taken ill and collapsed, concious but as weak as a kitten. Impossible place for a...

I'm not missing any point, I like the EU and am happy to pay EU prices for the greater good. I'm very sorry that we are leaving the EU, but at least we will be rejoining it when sanity returns. .

Perhaps he's a local socialist for local people. :) .

Because as I've said, it could never do what car does for me. That is indisputable fact, and I can give examples. .

As will the cost of the humans fitting those trillions of sensors! .

Having robotic drive on main routes out of town and on in-city arterial routes would eliminate most of the deaths. For example London has 13.5% of the national population but only 7% of the road deaths. Take out the deaths on the main urban routes that could also be roboticised and urban...

Again agreed, and I've already said as much for major roads, but most infrastructure is built to last for at least a hundred years, often much longer, so it cannot simply be changed quickly enough. Also some of this is prohibitively expensive, detection sensors to spot anything at any point on...

Yes, I'm familiar with such grocers, and customers helping themselves bare handed from tins of unwrapped biscuits etc! But many things simply cannot be on an Amazon and Intel scale, my builders merchants dealings for example. They use all the tech they can, as do I and many of their customers...

Agreed, but as I've remarked with robotic surface vehicles, only on prepared suitable infrastructures. .

I fully agree with all that, railways are dead easy, so is space since it's full of - - - space! But robotics won't cope with much of what we do with our road vehicles and the circumstances in which we do that. That is what you and Woosh don't seem to understand, the infrastructure that we use...

Not really, true Labour members tried but were repressed by the fake labour Blairite control and not allowed to use their party's publicity machinery. That's an important cause of today's left wing anger. .

Lots of snags though, some examples: The maximum permitted altitude of 400' would need to be drastically increased to enable parachute use, but that would put this slow machine in conflict with much faster aircraft and create an air traffic control impossibility with a number of these in use...

The daftest thing about this is that after campaigning for us to leave the EU, detach ourselves completely, and cut immigration to a minimum, he promotes a way to more easily let people cross the channel to culturally and commercially merge. .