17 August

We bought one of these. Kluger Hybrid. Obviously fuel costs are a part of the decision, plus cheap (and local) servicing. But it’s also a ‘self-driving’ car, which people know is a real interest of mine. It isn’t marketed as that, for legal reasons car makers don’t want people to think they won’t have to pay any attention to the road. Like commercial planes, it’s really semi-autonomous, like an auto pilot in a plane. But it will drive itself, under the name of ’radar cruise control’, which is what self-driving really is. The technology is already here, car makers are just introducing it without the marketing fanfare, again for legal reasons.