Henry Foy, motor industry correspondent at the Financial Times, reports on how the world's biggest carmakers are taking stock of a period of rapid technological innovation. The car industry, faced with government regulations, changing customer preferences and competition from Silicon Valley, is spending record amounts on R&D. But are all the technical advances useful and positive?

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