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Self-driving cars are the future, but I prefer to take the wheel
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Having a robot do the driving carves out time for people to do other things, but does it spark joy like a good drive?
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
SINGAPORE – During the Covid-19 lockdown, I recall grabbing the car key and going to the farthest corner of Singapore to da bao a single packet of economy rice, taking the most circuitous route possible.
The essential activity – to use circuit breaker parlance – was not the consumption of vegetables and curry chicken, but the joy of taking a drive.
