SELF-DRIVE CAR
Will I even need a licence
To “drive” a self-drive car?
Can I “drive” it after being
Pissed up in a bar?
Can my younger brother “drive” it
Is it within the law?
I'd make sure he was buckled up
Because he's only four.
Or my 90 year old grandad
He'd sit with Gran behind?
He had to give his licence up
Because he's nearly blind.
And will it have as standard
In this techno-age
A self-drive middle finger
To register road rage.
And if my car should kill someone
Inadvertantly
Would it be sentenced 20 years
To jail instead of me?
And would it lose its licence too?
Cos certainly I feel
That it should take the road again
If I'm behind the wheel.

John Coopey
Wed 11th Feb 2026 08:55
Thanks for your thoughts, Stephen and Graham.