It delivers orders from a centralised, highly automated distribution centre, while the supermarkets typically distribute online orders through their stores.

The highly automated facility sorts, washes, decontaminates, purifies and shreds the material into fingernail-size flakes.

Between 5 per cent and 60 per cent more energy would be consumed as people 'use highly automated cars in situations where they would have previously taken alternative transport'.

Using a mobile phone, not wearing a seat belt and eating at the wheel will all be subject to on-the-spot penalties, even in a highly automated car.

With practice and familiarity, handwriting becomes highly automated using motor programs stored in motor memory.