My first encounter with a semi-autonomous vehicle was with a Nissan Leaf, nearly four years ago in the US. It was a nervous experience in the beginning when you take your hands completely off the wheel and see the car automatically following the road or the car ahead. But within minutes you get used to it and start relaxing behind the wheel. But immediately after, the car jumped lanes for no reason. I couldn't understand initially and thought it could be part of the route optimization algorithm.

When you're sitting in the driver's seat at 60mph on a rain-lashed motorway, covering your eyes would normally be a dangerous, if not downright suicidal move. Putting on a virtual reality headset, obscuring the view of the road altogether, might seem even crazier. But that's exactly what I did recently. To start with, I was looking at a computer simulation of the motorway in front of me. Then the road disappeared altogether, the car took off, and I began flying through an alien landscape.