Friday January 9 2015 Vitali Vitaliev, features editor Autonomous vehicles from Mercedes, BMW and Audi debut at CES I hope they will test autonomous cars away from busy city streets, preferably in the desert, where they will only be surrounded by other driverless vehicles. Otherwise, I can imagine the shock some (flesh-and-blood human) drivers will feel when overtaken, cut off or tail-gated by a ghost-driven car, with nothing but emptiness behind the wheel. Humans can be unpredictable when shocked, and sudden accidental braking or accelerating may follow – with catastrophic (in the true sense of this word) results. Call me … Continue reading E&T news weekly #32 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week