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Dermot Desmond (centre) in Queen’s University Belfast discussion
“Imagine a world where it’s impossible to speed, impossible to crash and virtually impossible to knock someone down,” the businessman Dermot Desmond invited his audience to ponder at an AI conference in Queen’s University Belfast last month. “What responsible government would permit anything other than autonomous vehicles on the road?”
The billionaire investor made his opposition to Dublin’s MetroLink clear in the ‘fireside chat’ he had with broadcaster Donna Traynor at the conference, but his audience in Belfast would have been more interested in his vision of the role of cars in the cities of 2050.
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