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Self-driving cars: hype continues to triumph over hope

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Tesla 's Cybercab concept has no conventional steering wheel or controls, it has swanky, upward-opening “gullwing” doors and no Tesla badging.

A month after the Tesla reveal, another manufacturer saw a slight increase in its share price over news about autonomous cars.

General Motors pulled out of driverless technology and closing its loss-making Cruise division.

Ford walked away from its Argo AI autonomous vehicle project which it co-owned with Volkswagen .

There have been 473 accidents in the first six months of this year , 1,353 in 2023 and 1,450 in 2022 .

In October the NHTSA opened an investigation into 2.4 million Teslas with the car maker’s Full Self Driving ( FSD ) software (it isn’t).