Ive been saying this for years!
Nobody will own a car. Theyll all be taxis. Come when you text them
When it breaks down just leave it on the side of the road and hail another taxi. Need something delievered fast? Just call a car and put your package in it and send it off. Its going to be glorious!

Here's the thing. Its very likely that 25-75% of the people that are going to be writing the code to program those cars are very cheap, very male, very foreign developers, either from India or Eastern European countries. This whole driverless car thing will be great, until one of these very cheap, very male, very foreign developers decides to put out a new code release or patch to these cars, which just happens to cause the accelerator to go full blast and simultaneously kill hundreds of people. Don't think its going to happen? It is. Just wait for it. There will be this huge uproar and a LOT of money is going to be spent fixing the problem. Now, its very possible that this doesn't kill the concept, but I think this will happen repeatedly and people will really quickly lose any trust in them. Just my two cents.

Ive been saying this for years!
Nobody will own a car. Theyll all be taxis. Come when you text them
When it breaks down just leave it on the side of the road and hail another taxi. Need something delievered fast? Just call a car and put your package in it and send it off. Its going to be glorious!

I think Americans love for cars and driving is going to be a little obstacle.

Thousands of people work on the same code for autonomys cars. No single person could do something like that and pass it through the verification process

Do your homework

People kill people every day in cars. Computers will kill far far less. In the 70s nobody thought we could ever trust computers with our money but look at it now.

there will be no drivers, except for people on joy rides.

There is way too much money to be made on this for the tech companies to not get it right. And one truck drivers go there goes their insurance agents, the truck stops serving them and all over the other jobs that they support. That's going to massively disrupt society.

Here's the thing. Its very likely that 25-75% of the people that are going to be writing the code to program those cars are very cheap, very male, very foreign developers, either from India or Eastern European countries. This whole driverless car thing will be great, until one of these very cheap, very male, very foreign developers decides to put out a new code release or patch to these cars, which just happens to cause the accelerator to go full blast and simultaneously kill hundreds of people. Don't think its going to happen? It is. Just wait for it. There will be this huge uproar and a LOT of money is going to be spent fixing the problem. Now, its very possible that this doesn't kill the concept, but I think this will happen repeatedly and people will really quickly lose any trust in them. Just my two cents.

I think Americans love for cars and driving is going to be a little obstacle.

That's what they said 120 years ago about horses and carriages when the combustible engine was invented.

With all the money state,county and city police department make on moving violations I have trouble seeing this becoming widespread in America. Unless they find another way to make the money up.

Nah the media-propaganda machine will just continue to vilify the poor, and as long as not everyone is poor most Americans will buy it.

I imagine the DUI would go the way of the dodo bird.

I imagine the DUI would go the way of the dodo bird.

I think Americans love for cars and driving is going to be a little obstacle.

There are already computers writing news stories for ESPN