American driverless cars “can’t spot iconic British vehicles”

It says that this has led UK scientists and politicians to raise questions over companies like Google and Uber, who have been developing their own autonomous technology, being able to test driverless cars in Britain.

Michael Pound, a professor of AI and neural networks at The University of Nottingham, told the newspaper, “This is a definite safety concern, in another setting a failure of AI not noticing unseen data might hardly be life threatening, but what about when the network is controlling a 3 tonne vehicle travelling at 60mph?”