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So how much longer do I have to wait until I can ignore everything on the road and let my car do ALL the driving?
When our grandkids are adults, they will be joking about the old days when people actually had to manually drive their cars, they will wonder why it didnt happen sooner and how everyone survived in such a world!
They wont know what a traffic light or stop sign looks like!
It will be impossible for us to predict what will happen when AI takes to the road. Don't forget that speed and freedom on our roads is what is selling cars today. Americans will not be quick to give up what they consider their 'rights'. As the manufacturers gear up for AI there will be winners and losers. It is hard to say how Madison Ave will deal with the changes.
This is apples and oranges and too many variables.
When it comes to safety or security, people are very quick to give up things though.
It will be interesting to see how the insurance companies feel about the whole self drive transition, on one hand, increased safety and when its made mandatory, accidents, even fender benders, will be very rare, but at the same time, that will likely be the death nail for auto insurance too. People may still need coverage for things like tree limbs, hail damage, etc, but coverage for comp/ collision will not be needed anymore.
When it comes to safety or security, people are very quick to give up things though.
It will be interesting to see how the insurance companies feel about the whole self drive transition, on one hand, increased safety and when its made mandatory, accidents, even fender benders, will be very rare, but at the same time, that will likely be the death nail for auto insurance too. People may still need coverage for things like tree limbs, hail damage, etc, but coverage for comp/ collision will not be needed anymore.
For thirty or forty years people in my area have talked about the coming passenger rail service and nothing has happened.
In the 1950's and 1960's I remember reading in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics about how we would all be flying around in flying cars by this time.
My point is that not everything happens like expected. Sometimes ideas do get off the ground and start to win public acceptance and then things go wrong. Many times the cost is seriously underestimated; like the LA to San Francisco high speed passenger service. Other times the public simply isn't ready to accept new ideas (like these two Californians that attacked these new vehicles: (Californians have attacked self-driving vehicles on San Francisco streets, DMV says | The Sacramento Bee).
It is virtually impossible to keep everybody happy all the time. Toss in greed and anything can happen.
When our grandkids are adults, they will be joking about the old days when people actually had to manually drive their cars, they will wonder why it didnt happen sooner and how everyone survived in such a world!
They wont know what a traffic light or stop sign looks like!
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The car was in self-driving mode when it happened.
Self driving cars are going to come and there is no stopping that from happening.
However, we are crazy if we don't demand that before these cars are allowed to become anything more than experimental that they be tightly regulated. We should have data showing these vehicles are at 3X safer than ordinary cars before they are allowed to become commercially available. The data doesn't exist? The cars do not move beyond the experimental stage until it does.
Why not just as safe as current drivers which should be easily achievable?
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