Driverless cars are here. Ok, most round my way are just kind’a ‘parked’, so they’re allowed to be driverless. But I’m talking about proper cars that don’t require a driver whilst moving, they do it themselves. With a little bit of software and a few sensors. And the winner in this race, possibly the most potentially moneyspinning thing since the iphone is… not Apple, not Tesla, not even Uber, but Google.

Waymo, (subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s father), are actually going ‘live’ with driverless cars, on real roads, in Phoenix, Arizona. Initially they’re only used by Waymo employees and temporarily, they’ll all have an engineer sitting in the car as a monitor/undertaker, until tests are complete. And here’s the most amazing thing: Waymo have covered more than 3.5 million driverless miles so far and had just 14 minor collisions. 13 of which were due to humans.

I wonder if you can choose a ‘setting’ when you call your car. ‘Fast’, or ‘careful’ or ‘road rage’. Changes the mode of use. ‘Aggressive!’ Right up to ‘OUT’A MY WAY, MUTHAFUCKA!!’ Just so its more like the normal driving experience.

Remember: don’t drink and driverless!

Boris Johnson is the latest in a very long line of government ministers jumping ship at the moment. They’re falling like Premiership managers. If the sex scandals haven’t got them (Fallon, Green), or lying about ‘holidays’ in Israel whilst having high level talks with foreigners (Patel), then its Boris just… being an arsehole. What he does best.

About the Iranian/British woman currently in prison in Tehran for ‘spying’, even though she was just on holiday seeing her family, with her baby daughter, at the time, Boris spoke up. And said that she was only there ‘to teach journalism’. Which she wasn’t. Boris, when he finally, sort of, apologised, said that ‘his words were taken out of context’ and so was sorry if they misled. How there can be any other ‘context’ for such a simple statement is known only to Boris and others who live at such a high level of language comprehension. The problem is that in Iran ‘journalism’ is a heavily loaded word. Its like ‘terrorism’ or ‘child abuse’ or ‘free speech’ and thus the poor woman may now be imprisoned for a further 5 years for ‘propaganda’. Major cock-up, Boris. Something he knows all about.

We’ll have no government left soon.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx