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home and abroad. Now, it is time for Click. | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
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Would you trust a computer to drive you about? | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
This week, Click hits the road without touching the wheel. We will | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
test drive the travellers technology that could fit into | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
existing vehicles. Is it something that you would trust? It is never | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
too late to get online, so we will look at ways to make technology | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
work for all ages. We have the latest tech news from around the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
world and we will show you have to find anything you have stuck one of | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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these two. No matter how much of a tech head | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
you are, there are some things must have this will not let a computer | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
do. Of the 60 million new cars bought last year, none of them came | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
without a steering wheel or similar human control. Several companies | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
are demonstrating cars which drive themselves. Will they ever make it | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Thank you. We will be back in half an hour. The test track and into | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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the fast lane? City driving is hardly as pleasant | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
as the open road romanticised in most car ads. Hummus a daily | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
commute contains breathtaking views and the odd hairpin turn, you might | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
wish you could drive to work with your eyes closed. But what it | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
vehicles could drive themselves? Request and location and the card | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
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as the rest. -- Carte does the rest. The most publicised of recent times | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
comes from Google. It has developed a car that uses mapping data | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
alongside video cameras and radar. The resulting vehicles can drive on | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
their own. The company has looked over 300,000 miles so far in its | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
research. Car makers have already included automated features in some | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
of their models, like Self parking. Ford's automatic stopping system | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
works at speed under 40kph. Three radars at the front of the car | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
detect the speed of the vehicle ahead. The car's on-board computer | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
makes a judgement and in a collision looks likely, the bricks | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
will kick in. It takes over. You have no control over the braking | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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system. It will apply maximum braking force instantly. Parking | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
and bricking are only two aspect of driving. Imagine being able to let | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
go completely in the middle of a journey. Relax and take in the | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
scenery. Imagine driving around here as if your car was on rails. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
It would be as easy as catching the right tram. A few miles away, that | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
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is what is being promised for cars. It is here at a top-secret test | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
track in Sweden that I'm about to get my first hands of experience. - | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
- hence off. This is eroded train. The project has been running for | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
the last three years. -- a rogue train. It allows drivers to take | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
their feet of the paddles and hands of the wheel. Cars travel in | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
private sink. It is as if the Cup throws out a breadcrumbs with | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
information on acceleration and steering so the following vehicles | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
can repeat the same acceleration and steering and follow the exact | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
track but of the League Cup. does it feel to go hands-free at | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
60kph? Is it okay to take my hands off the will? There we go. I have | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
to say, this is an odd experience. Even just turning around to talk | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
you feels utterly unfamiliar. There is a part of me going, keep your | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
eye on the road. I found it surprisingly easy to trust the | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
system what I joined the platoon. In the past a laptop please? You | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
could do pretty much anything. How would this work in real life? The | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
road train is not completely autonomous. There is still a driver | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
at the front. One may indicate or changed lanes, the other cars to | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
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the same. -- when they indicate. When you get to a turn-off, you can | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
request to leave the platoon, take back the wheel and continue on to | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
our final destination. Each vehicle saves up to 20% of its feel and to | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
the aerodynamics. That is unless the technology goes wrong. Should I | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
be controlling the vehicle at this point? Thank you. Not exactly | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
relaxing. The technology can't afford to fail. The main challenge | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
technically is making sure it works under all circumstances. On the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
test track, it has been a challenge but on public roads, the challenge | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
is much bigger. We have to do a lot of verification to understand we | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
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can work with unexpected situations. The once the industry has | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
straightened up the technology, they have to convince the rest of | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
us to make it legal. So far, the proposals have enjoyed overwhelming | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
bipartisan support. There has been a bit of hesitancy and concern, | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
firstly from the many factoring community out concern for liability. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
If the car driving itself as something goes wrong, who is at | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
fault? We have fault-based liability in most states of the | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
worst. But it is the driver that is responsible, provided the injured | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
party can provide some net -- evidence of negligence on the part | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
of the driver. Now, the machinery takes over, and we turn these cases | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
into product liability cases more than cases of individual liability | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
for negligence. This week, the senator's bill was backed. If | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
approved, it will pass into law with a proviso that a licensed | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
driver will sit in the driver's seat in case of emergency for -- | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
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emergencies. Technology is not the big hurdle. The big hurdle is the | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
legal, liability and perception issues. General Motors dimmest -- | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
demonstrated similar technology in its concept video last year. Other | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
companies are playing with the idea of autonomous driving. If all these | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
can't make this can do it, why can't we buy it? They many | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
factories have said there was no existing barrier between the | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
technology available and having these vehicles on the road -- roads. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Carmakers and lawmakers may be confident that they are not far off | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
but they will have to persuade humans that -- computers are better | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
at writing than we are. -- at driving. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Could you ever see yourself giving control of your whack into a | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
computer? Tweet us. Next, a look at the tech news. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Cat that mobile phones will stop working in Kenya from the start of | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
October. The Communications Commission hopes the move will give | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
people a better use experienced and protect mobile payment systems from | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
potential fraud. Worried owners can send a text message with the | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
check if the model is genuine. Samsung Galaxy Tab -- Galaxy owners | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
could see their phones returned to backrower settings by clicking on a | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
specific link. This was demonstrated at a security | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
conference in Argentina. The researcher who found it said the | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
fault lies with Samsung's interface. Samsung encouraged users to | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
download a fix. The measures in addition to | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
existing restrictions prevent Iranians from accessing many | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
western sites. It is not the first assault on Google services in Iraq | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
-- Iran. YouTube has been censored cents bit 2009. All parties say the | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
restrictions will be in place until further notice. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
A new report sporting six cameras has been unveiled in France, | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
designed to help wine producers maintain their vineyards. Tracking | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
technology, artificial intelligence and mapping capabilities enable the | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
robot to move Trudie veneered, recognising plant features, | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
memorising each vine and pruning is needed. It supplies its owner with | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
valuable data on the help of the soil, fruit and wine stocks. It can | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
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As we have said, apart from driving you about, there are many areas of | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
our lives that we are happy to give over to technology. It is easier to | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
stay in touch with friends and family, do your shopping, Bank of | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
line. But ironically the generation of people that would benefit the | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
most from the convenience is also the generation that finds it | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
hardest to use. -- bank online. But there are some ways to make a | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
complicated PC with small icons more user-friendly. We have been | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
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Silver service or senior citizens seduced by the allure of the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
silicon chip. Perhaps an unfamiliar sight. All the people wrestling | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
with the finer details of writing an e-mail or making an online | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
purchase. But as more and more services migrate to the Web, there | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
is a growing need to educate less techs than the members of society | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
about computers and technology. Here, all the people are learning | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
this very skills on a course specifically created for novices. - | :12:31. | :12:40. | |
- all the people. If you want to go anywhere or | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
bought tickets for anything, most of it is online. If you are not | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
online, you are out of everything. I feel as if I am missing out, in | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
the sense that I feel cut off sometimes. Now, there are times | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
when I need to be able to use a computer properly. We run classes, | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
over 100 classes, all over England, helping people learn right from the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
very basics of how to use the mouse, through to how to make savings on | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
my own and operate a bank account or compare prices online. I use the | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
computer quite a lot and I am OK on word-processing. But there were | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
things... Everything I know, I have picked up piecemeal. At the has | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
been structured. So I wanted to get to know the computer properly. And | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
toured by experts. The in-flight copying and cutting and pasting. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Those things I picked up but I did not know how to do it properly. I | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
had to ask somebody to help me. -- things like copying. This | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
particular cause runs for ten weeks. As the students' progress, the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
world of technology starts to seem less daunting. I am more confident | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
in copying, cutting and pasting, things like that, because I have | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
been taught the correct way to do it. Once you on the computer, there | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
is no stopping you. Training is an important part of introducing | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
technology to all the users but is there anything the technology | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
industry can do to assist? -- elderly users. Operating systems | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
like windows have accessibility settings, which makes the type | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
larger oar mac the five parts of the screen. But could ideas like | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
this be refined into a simpler computing experience? There are a | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
couple of solutions designed specifically for novices. We will | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
take a look at a couple of them. First is this. It is called | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Simplicity. Simplicity is a complete operating system on a USB | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
stick and comes with instructions and a disc. But the user will have | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
to source a computer themselves. Now cut a her instruction manuals | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
are something you do not see often these days. -- instruction manuals. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Many are hidden in parts of the operating system. If you are a | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
novice, that could pose a problem. That is where good old fashioned | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
paper is perhaps more useful. The operating system itself is | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
massively simplified, originally starting life as an awareness. It | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
boots up and looks like an on the lip of the screen. There is | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
oversize type to make it easier to read. Each has the ability to surf | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
the Web all right documents. The idea behind the operating system is | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
that it can be plugged into pretty much any computer. Because it is so | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
simple and stripped down, you do not need a fire-breathing high-end | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
PC. It should work with lower specification and all the machines | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
without any problems. -- although machines. When you get it running, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
it is pretty straightforward. There are a number of video tutorials. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
And of course the manual is there to guide new users through the a | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
West. But getting started is part of the problem. Simple operations a | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
rather typical -- OS. The does not include a network options, which | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
for a novice is not ideal. This is the kind of functionality that | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
should be found on the main John Phillips green. Simplicity | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
themselves do recommend the first time set up is performed by | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
somebody who is reasonably techs savvy. -- found on the main screen. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
And they do offer a comprehensive telephone support. This brings us | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
to a new outfit that had taken a slightly different approach to | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Simplicity. They have created a hardware and software solution in | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
the form of laptops. This is basically a middle of the road | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
Toshiba notebook. The lack books come in two flavours. 17 and 15 | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
inch. This is the 15th. The keyboard has an overlay, making it | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
easier to read. Some have been set up for one key operation, taking | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
the user to e-mail or we can. Upon boot up, the large icons instantly | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
open particular axe. The experience in a -- in using this machine is | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
not as smooth as it could be. Setting up an e-mail account is | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
more complicated than it needs to be. Again, slightly tarnishing the | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
easy to use, easy to set up ethos which underpins this and ever. Both | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
of these options have good ideas at the heart but a let down by some | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
irritating floors. And then you come to the cost. Simplicity is | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
cheaper but you will need a donor computer. This one is about the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
middle of the road laptop with an operating system and is rather | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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expensive for what it his. Keeping things simple. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
They can't be many of us who have not at one time or another have | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
gone for our phone only to begin a slack Dance of panic. This is | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
usually followed by a frantic search of your premises and a | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
desperate cry to your friend to call it. We have covered ways to | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
find a lost smartphone on this phone but Kate Russell start this | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
week's Webscape with something that should take the frenzy out of | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
losing almost anything. Two you wouldn't have to panic | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
about losing your valuable items if you attack them at Belongings. This | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
is a global Lost and Found service that uses stickers to mark an item, | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
allowing you to tap it in a database as yours. In the hope that | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
somebody on us will find it, lock onto the website and get it back to | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
you. -- log. Personal users can apply to get sent sheets of | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
stickers like these ones that are right through the post, free of | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
charge, but you are encouraged to make additional payment for could | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
points. Mind up about one week to arrive. When I got them, I started | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
sticking them all over the things I own. Dan? We would not want you | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
getting lost, would we? There is a monthly subscription plan for | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
customers that has a bunch of additional corporate features. The | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
new register the tax, providing contact details and either of -- | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
even offering a reward using a credit card or PayPal account. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Users are wind-up anonymously so they can organise the return of an | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
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item directly. One of the greatest things about | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
modern smartphone technology is enhanced personal security. You GPS | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
data can tell people exactly where you while, even if you can't. This | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
grabs this idea with both hands, to provide a paid app with your safety | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
at its core. With so many apps and services like dating roadsides | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
encourage you asked to step out of the online world and made in 3D | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
space, I can see a real place for an act like this. -- dating website. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
You would hope to never needed and it should open the door to | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
complacency. But it on that one occasion you do need it, it could | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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To use it, just take a photo of something that can be identified, | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
like a licence plate, St side or bar name we will meet somebody. The | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
photo is stored on the Secure space with your ID, time, date and the | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
GPS location. If something does go wrong, you're nominated contacts | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
can request this information gets passed to the police, saving vital | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
time tracking you down in an If that's all a bit too serious, I | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
have the purse -- perfect thing - the Monty Python silly walks | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
generator. This is childish and you -- if you are not a fan often Monty | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
Python, you probably will not get it. But it's a lot of fun. Who | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
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knows? It may even catch on around To make your own much sillier walk | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
than that, pick a background and character. My favourite is the | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
Spanish Inquisition cardinal. Then, mark your moves along the post | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
timeline and adjust the sliders to suit. Once finished, you can save | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
and share or e-mail to a friend. It is sure to crack a small smile when | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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Kate Russell with Webscape. Those links are available at our website. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
You can also find previous reports from previous programmes on there. | :22:32. | :22:36. |