“Micro-jam his brakes!” says Michael Knight, in hot pursuit behind a truck. “My pleasure, Michael,” replies Kitt, the AI system built into Knight’s Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. This sequence from a 1982 episode of Knight Rider is no longer the stuff of dreams. And, as the debate rages on about who to blame (and therefore regulate) for the extreme form of joyriding involving high-speed drives down the wrong side of motorways, the car industry has strangely been left off the hook. After five teenagers died when the BMW they drove into oncoming traffic on the M9 crashed into an unsuspecting…

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