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in the back of a driverless cabs. car: take a seat in the back and close the doors. - buckle up and get ready to ride. i'm just glad that was james, not me. meanwhile, spencer has been sniffing out the secrets of a shipwreck. 0oh. stale beer. is that you or me? definitely not me! and on the subject of smells... this is the first ever bbc click perfume. this is not nice. right, let's go for a ride. they have been a long time coming, but in the last few years, we have watched self—driving cars get closer and closer. we've just pulled out in front of quite fast moving car there. we made it, but i call that quite a human manoeuvre. not that it has always been a smooth ride, mind you. i'm holding on tight. that's quite weird!

but whatever the experience, one thing has been constant. whenever we have been in autonomous vehicles, we haven't been alone. there's always been someone with us to take over in the case of an emergency, as the ai behind the wheel rack up enough miles to convince us all that they are ready for the road. and now finally there is a driverless taxi service that is taking paying customers. it is in san francisco and when we say driverless, we mean there is no driver at all. not even a safety driver. which i think must be a massive leap of faith for anyone getting into that car. and will generally feel a bit weird. it certainly will. and that passenger for us was james clayton. here is what happened when he climbed into the back seat. wow! i think there is actually no—one in there. wow, this is incredible. oh my god.

0n san francisco's street, something straight out of a sci—fi film is happening. people are able to hail cabs with no driver, fully autonomous robo—taxis. some love it. i cannot believe this is happening. screaming. but others believe it is too soon for fully driverless cars to be on our streets. the public as a whole has not been provided with valid documentation that these vehicles are going to be safe. there is only one way to find out. get into one of these cars ourselves. the bbc was one of the first media organisations in the world to try it. is this it? oh, wow! 0k. uh... car: take a seat in the back and close the doors. - buckle up and get ready to ride.

our plan for the evening is to go to some of san francisco's landmarks. the painted ladies, mrs doubtfire's house and ashbury. no—one is telling us where to go, we can go wherever we want. it is really, really weird. it isn't at like a racetrack or a testing centre, we are fully in the centre of san francisco. it's like going on a rollercoaster or something. that feeling before where you know you are probably going to be fine, but it is still weird. what's going on here? so how does it negotiate this? i have to say, it's pretty conservative driving. we got to that stop first. and now we are going. so it's definitely cautious.

and that is no accident. cruise's vice president of product, 0liver cameron, tells me the cars are programmed to drive conservatively. on any of our cruise avs we have lidar, radar and cameras, and we fuse all those together using machine learning and that gives us amazing understanding of the world around us. by design we are making our av extra cautious when it hits the roads. the system didn't always put me at ease, in fact it made me pretty nervous. a car has just stopped in the middle of the street. 0h... i'm glad you were filming that, because that was a reallyjerky left turn into the other road. oh, this is interesting. there is a bus in our lane and cars to our left so what is it going to do? 0oh. ok, it's pulling out left.

0h, another bus is coming out, right, it really doesn't know what to do. there is a car behind us. this isjust bad driving. i was ready to love this, and i'm definitely nervous. i am a nervous passenger right now. one of the things i think is worth factoring is that our av makes different decisions than humans. in many cases our av makes humanlike decisions but sometimes it makes decisions that are very precise, like a computer is making them which is effectively what is happening. so, that moment, although it felt dangerous, it wasn't, the computer knew what it doing? exactly, yes. cruise, though, has been involved in a number of accidents in san franciso this year, most of them minor. however after an accident injune, its software was recalled and some believe it's too soon for real passengers to be driven around without a driver on urban streets. these vehicles are still somewhat in the test phase

and cruise has decided to deploy them in certain areas where they will interact with the public and we believe that before manufacturers do that, they need to provide the public with some sort of transparent evidence that these vehicles are not going to cause problems, deaths or injuries on the road. but cruise insists its cars are safe. we're really proud of our safety record and we report continuously to our regulators and safety absolutely is the top priority at cruise. we are six months into deploying this product, brand—new, game changing product and with that comes some early teething problems, right? so we take traffic into account, but we also take safety into account. cruise has just started accepting fares in san francisco at night. the public are actually using this, and it will be launching in boston and phoenix by the end of the year. as for ourjourney, we visited all the sites we wanted to see, albeit through some strange routeing, and made it back

safe and sound. it was amazing, surreal, scary, all in one. bye! that was a really... bizarre experience. unnerving experience. ok, so... 0h, woah! not a scratch on us. but definitely did some things during the ride that made me feel uncomfortable. 0h, what's happened there? it definitely needs a bit more work. that was james. james is virtually here with me now. i'm glad you are ok, it was quite unnerving watching that. it was definitely strange and i really did think, everyone told us before we were going to get into this thing that it would be kind of unnerving for 30 seconds ora minute, and then you would get over it and that just never happened. i was nervous for the whole thing. itjust made these jerky

movements very often and although they said that the decisions the car was making were safe, they didn't feel safe and they weren't the decisions that a human would make. it feels weird to think they are alive, it's a bit like toy story. yeah, right. and that is the dream of this technology, you use your car in the day and when you go to sleep at night you might be able to use it as a taxi, and this is the very start of what feels like a really important moment in the way in which we get around cities and we get around generally. while you've been journeying around, i know you've also taken a trip to the first apple in the flesh event that's happened in a few years, how was it? it was very interesting, we haven't done it for three years because the pandemic has stopped that. it was kind of fascinating. it's interesting seeing proper apple bros, people who are obsessed with apple phones. the guy in front of us seemed extremely excited, he was very happy.

even though these are really incremental changes and there were some interesting things that happened but with the iphone 14 to the iphone 13, how much is different? i think a lot of people think there is not a lot of difference. and that is something we will find out more about, thank you so much james. and here is zoe who got her hands on the latest iphone. this is the iphone 14 pro. from the back, comes in pretty colours but ultimately it looks like an iphone. i've been carrying it around with me for a few days now, nobody has batted an eyelid. its chunky and got this aluminium ring here that is supposed to protect it from inevitably getting smashed but that is not what everybody is talking about. the first thing is this always—on display. it's a bit weird when you first get the phone because you feel like you've forgotten to lock it or something. it's not a new idea but it is certainly new to apple

and apple says that it uses hardly any battery life. the battery, by the way is not bad. they say that it will last you all day and i certainly have not been charging this more than once a day. the thing that everyone is really talking about with this device is what they are calling the dynamic island. basically, on former iphones you had a sort of black oblong, apple has turned it into a little screen to show you notifications. what we haven't talked about yet is the other features that are unique to this new phone, but to do that we are going to go outside, so come with me. let me tell you a bit about the camera, there is a 48 megapixel camera on the back of the iphone 14, which apple says gives you a much greater depth of zoom when you are taking pictures of really tiny things. it is also four times more powerful than the camera on the back of apple's previous models. you've still got your selfie

camera on the front where the dynamic island is, that is 12 megapixels and it comes with autofocus which apple says will give you a better picture for those all—important group selfies. it performs well in low light as well. here is a dark staircase and this is a shot from when i sat there. the phone also boasts action mode, increased video stability and some new emergency features. one of the features of the new phone that i'm not going to be able to show you, i hope, is crash detection, so the iphone 14 uses a number of different sensors including the gyroscope, the microphone will pick up the sound of an engine cutting out. an engine, that's right. it won't work for cyclists, not yet, anyway. to identify if you are in a severe crash, and if you are, it will notify the emergency service. apple does seem to think that people who use its phones are often in a situation of mild peril because another feature of this phone is emergency satellite connectivity.

i can't show you that either because it is only going to be available at first in north america, but basically if your phone can't find a signal you will be able to point up at the sky and find a passing satellite and send an sos message that way. it is the sort of feature that is reassuring to have. how many iphone 14 users are actually ever going to need it? i'm not convinced. 0k, time for a look at this week's tech news now — and the ceo of apple, tim cook, has told the bbc there is no good excuse for the lack of women in the tech sector. he said more needs to be done to educate young people in the skills that they need for the industry such as coding. nasa says it could be a couple of months before it knows whether an experiment to change the course of an asteroid has worked. it crashed the dart probe into the rock deliberately to see if the same technique would stop future objects from hitting earth. over the next few months we're

going to information from the investigation team on what period change did we actually make, because that's our number two goal. number one was hit the asteroid, which we have done, but now number two is really measure that period change and characterise how much trajectory we actually put out. london's natural history museum is going to digitise their environmental research onto the cloud for the first time. they say the new data platform will give hundreds of scientists access to their resources, allowing them to track and respond to the biodiversity crisis. and this camera could unlock a whole new underwater world. how? well, it doesn't need a battery. it is wireless, allowing it to go deeper and for longer than cameras have gone before and engineers at mit have designed it to convert sound travelling through water into power.

0h... there was another whiff of something there. sniffs i don't know. grapefruit? is it the sea? today, i'm having a rather smelly experience while trying to solve a mystery from history. this is one of the most famous shipwrecks in the world. the mary rose was king henry viii�*s favourite warship, and in isas, while battling the french, it sunk under mysterious circumstances. for more than 400 years, it lay on its side at the bottom of the river solent, but amazingly, the starboard half was preserved under the silt, which led in 1982 to one of the most complex maritime salvage operations

in history. and now, exactly a0 years on, i have donned a bluetooth—connected backpack that will release different smells as i chase around the mary rose museum in portsmouth, trying to work out why the ship went down. right in the bowels of the ship now, and i'm smelling tar. it's like the roadworks outside my house. we've got a genuine mystery here. we don't know why the mary rose sunk onjulyi9,1545, and now we're giving you the chance to, through following these clues, work it out for yourself. my dad was a sailor for the spanish merchant navy. he's from the sahara desert in north africa originally. myjob is to meet the characters and watch the scenes

that might explain the sinking. i think i'm going to fire the cannon now. we're just going to put a hole that wall. getting a smell... a bit of gunpowder there. laughs the backpack is loaded with different scent bottles, each triggered by the scenes in the augmented—reality app, the idea being to make this whole experience even more immersive. in terms of where we process smell in the brain and where we process memory in the brain, they are very closely connected. they are linked, they are in close proximity. so, actually, that's why smell and memory work together. so, you smell a smell, and it will take you back maybe to your childhood. you might smell cabbage cooking, and it reminds you of school dinners in the canteen. it's kind of very subtle. it's not in your face, because it's literally not in yourface — it is around you. so, there is this kind of ambience of, in this case,

a recently—fired canon. yes! looks like you owe me three groats. - 0h, stale beer. is that you or me? the smells themselves have been created specially by a perfume company whose task was — let's say — not to be sniffed at. sometimes they send the scent, and you smell it, and you are like, "i did not want a soil—inspired perfume. i actually want soil, so can you just go and get on it?" and they tried to make us some rotten meat for in the hulls, the cook's clue, if you got to that clue, and itjust smelt nothing like rotten meat. it smelt like a really nice — you know — austin, texas barbecue, so i was like, "guys, that is not going to fly," so then we changed that one because they also stored the beer and the meat together, so we were like, "0k, we're not going to get rotten meat." some things are really hard to recreate. we will go with

the beer, so, yeah. the ship is heaving dangerously. she doesn't feel stable. 0h, she is doing a sharp left turn. i think she is going to lose it on the bends. yep, she's going down. at the end of the experience, the mary rose is doomed to sink once more for reasons that we will never know for sure, but this time having met an incompetent captain, a vengeful shipmate, and heard about the many mistakes that were made on board, visitors get to give their thoughts on why the ship went down. it sounded like some unpleasant smells were being brewed up there, so how about an idea for some nicer ones? yes, so, a perfume company had a go at making those smells for the mary rose museum, but their main game is meticulously mixing the perfect smell. and we are all individuals, so maybe we deserve our own scent? anna holligan has been

to the netherlands to find out what it takes to make a personalised perfume. artificial intelligence. it trawls through data faster than humans can, and it learns, making suggestions our brains might not have considered. so, a! has the potential to make any industry smarter, but here in the netherlands it is being used to sniff out something i am especially keen to explore. more than 10 million data points are being used to try to create any person's unique, personalised perfume. first up, questions in the centronix app. if you could be somewhere else right now, where would that be? oh, by the ocean. some directly related to perfume, but others not so much. we cast a pretty wide net of questions because in the long run we are also a science

adventuring project to really understand why is it that we like what we like. the ai generates three scent recipes using algorithms that scan the data in different ways. i named mine after my daughter, zena, kitty, our producer, and click, obviously. with some automated magic, ingredients are made on demand. it is a complicated craft, and so technology is sort of giving a little push to get started. my mini perfumes are made in minutes. i was pretty impressed with the essence of zena. i really like it! and my second scent was a pleasant surprise. here is kitty. oh, my gosh. that is so different. very rich and deep and woody. and now i am going to hand you over click. this is the first ever

bbc click perfume. this is not nice. it is sophisticated, like the click team, but i wouldn't buy this. two out of three is not bad though. the app asks for feedback to improve, and 40,000 people have already used the machine. will the ai learn over time, get smarter, and be more likely to give three bottles that i love? all three? that is the ambition to ultimately one day not even have to give you three. of course, i thought i could outsmart the ai by tweaking the formula of my favourite scent. you know... you prefer the other one? i prefer the other one! i would have thought that by adding what i thought my preferences were, it would enhance the scent, but actually i prefer the original, so for now

i think when it comes to perfume i am prepared to put my preferences in the hands of ai. away from the shop floor, i wonder could this system really dent the $40 billion perfume industry? hi. how are you? this is where we really build the machines. this is basically giving you the possibility really to dive in deep, and it has over 210—20 ingredients. the urban legend is 700 people are deciding for 7 billion people how the world smells. so, by developing their own system that cuts cost and sits away from the beauty aisle, the team are opening up to new audiences and genders. this is the next thing that we're going to do. if people do it online they can follow it with cameras on a machine. but the machine has some way to go to understand the eclectic global demand. when it is really geographically far apart, the system has to be retrained.

it develops new preferences for certain areas, and so that is one of the reasons why we are travelling around, to get more input from different people, totally different cultures. this intelligence may be artificial but it does appear to have real power to recognise and interpret the essence of you. anna there, smelling lovely, probably. yes, probably. do you know what? i think i can imagine exactly what that click fragrance smelled like. what? stale crisps and online gaming. and on that note — get it — that's all we have time for. very good. thanks for watching. get a load of that. goodbye!

hello, after yesterday's wind and rain, a lot more in the way of sunshine around. some of you staying completely dry, but there will be dark clouds hereand there, a chance of a few showers. we've still got low pressure very close by, centred over iceland at the moment, approaching down towards the south—west, and with a westerly flow those showers always most likely across western areas. so far today, scotland, northern ireland. a few more develop in eastern scotland and across england and wales. but the showers, big gaps between them, especially further south and east. better chance of staying dry throughout the day, especially if you've got any outdoor plans. the wind today still coming in from that westerly direction. nowhere near as strong, but in the breeze and in the showers it will feel a touch on the cool side. but for october i and the sunshine elsewhere, very pleasant one, temperatures up to 19 or 20 degrees at their highest.

this evening overnight showers to begin with if you're out this evening across northern half of the country, fading a little bit into the morning, but at the same time, clouds spilling in towards the south—west, which could start to bring some outbreaks of rain, a little bit of uncertainty how far north and the biggest inroads this rain will have. mild around it, a fresher start elsewhere. but as i said, this is the big question mark. tomorrow, if it moves a little bit further north, of course, it will bring greater impacts of rain to many of you. if it heads a bit further south, a greater chance of a drier day. there'll be some mist and fog to the north of that. but lots of sunshine to come. fewer showers around than today, but it looks like the rain could just about fringe into southern counties of wales, but more especially southern half of england, very close to the london area. it's going to be right on the edge here throughout the day. so that's going to be important for some of you. these are the temperatures, down a little bit across southern areas of that cloud and rain. but further north, it should actually still feel quite pleasant, especially with lighter winds. so that takes us to london and the london marathon. could be some dark clouds overhead, some spots of rain or drizzle around, but that should hopefully ease and skies

should brighten as we go through from late morning onwards. aas we go into monday, high pressure is in charge of the south and east, light winds, a recipe for mist and fog. these weather fronts, though, to the north and west will bring changes to the day to western scotland, northern ireland. it's going to be slow progress, but heavy rain, gusty winds starting to spread the way in. much of southern scotland, a good part of northern ireland, england and wales will stay dry, sunny, slow across parts of east wales and central and eastern england where it should feel pleasant in any sunshine. that wind and rain, though, from the north and west spreads

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good afternoon. more than 50,000 rail workers are walking out today causing