Horizon examines the pros and cons of driverless cars. The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change. This film enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are simply passengers, ferried about by wholesome green compassionate technology which will never go wrong. And it is almost here. Horizon explores the artificial intelligence required to replace human drivers in cars, peers into the future driverless world and discovers that, despite the glossy driverless PR, the reality is that it might not be all good news. From the ethics of driverless car crashes to the impact on jobs, it might be that cars are about to rise up against us in ways that none of us are expecting.
