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And a simple software glitch or smart hacker could turn driverless cars into even more efficient killing machines.Isn't technology great?
How many humans killed someone on the road in the time you took to write this fantasy?
So yes in 10 years things will be dramatically different.
You seem to be softening on your time frame. I'd call it becoming more realistic. It will be noticeable in 10 years, but it will still be a long way from eliminating or even getting to 25% of cars on the road being self driving. I for one can' wait and completely believe this is needed to make the roads safer. Most dangerous thing most of us do in life is get in a car.
If you want to make the bet for 10 years, I'm still in. Hello?
Yes, Here is my timeline. What are you taking the otherside of?Here is my timeline (from page 4) ....5 years tens of thousands of driverless cars are on the road.7 years approaching a million driverless cars. At this point we have years and hundreds of million of miles of real data. The car shows it is more efficient, cheaper and far more safer. Dense Urban areas like central London, downtown Manhattan , San Fran and the loop river north area of Chicago see a movement to ban drivers. They are seen as slow inefficient, expensive and dangerous.Once this happens, the driver car takes on a different view. It is a giant waste of money. Other than the collector cars, the 3,000 pound hunk of metal in your garage is viewed as ultimately having a value of zero. New car sales plummet because no one wants to buy a car that is going to have no value in a few years. Human drivers are started to be looked upon like smokers.So yes in 10 years their will still be hundreds of millions of driver cars on the road. But like the Taxi company today, they will be seen as a dead industry with no long-term value and we are all demanding the new technology.Maybe I should explain myself regarding taxis ... the game is over, car-sharing companies like Uber have won. Sure traditional taxis will be around many more years (like horse drawn wagons existed on city streets until the 1940s) but we are watching the final convulsions of an industry that is about to expire. We are not going back the other way to traditional taxis. CA ruling they are employees is going to accelerate this process. Uber is moving as fast as humanly possible to fire every driver and get driverless on the road. CA ruling is going to make this happen faster.Regarding the major auto makers. They all go bankrupt every generation or so now. GM and Chrysler being the last. The rest are owned by the government and are bloated an inefficient. The Telsa electric car and non-dealer selling model is case in point that they "don't really get it" and are structured to sell something that will no longer be demanded.
I get lethargic on a train at ground level. I want my mind stimulated.I avoid the 405 like the plague, rarely if ever on it. Point is, on the weekends, at night, early in the morning, I do want that wind in my hair.
Thanks, I had not seen this
Yes, Here is my timeline. What are you taking the otherside of?Here is my timeline (from page 4) ....5 years tens of thousands of driverless cars are on the road.7 years approaching a million driverless cars.
Hmm .. don't think these predictions are coming up roses.https://thenextweb.com/news/why-truly-driverless-cars-may-never-happen
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