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2016 wants its post back.It’s really not that far from happening. It depends if the governments allow it.
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2016 wants its post back.It’s really not that far from happening. It depends if the governments allow it.
Yes there will be accidents, thats unavoidable but doesn't mean it's a bad idea if there are on average less accidents.It was a stupid idea to begin with. There will always be accidents with it.
You can pay a delivery driver $25 to $30 to drive a car.
in our current society greed will always * it upYes there will be accidents, thats unavoidable but doesn't mean it's a bad idea if there are on average less accidents.
I strongly suspect we'll end up sometime in the next 20 years with a lot of the population using subscription service driverless cars, with a reduction in overall traffic. If greed doesn't * it up (and it probably will) we could also end up with a win-win-win: reduced costs for most users; increased profits for manufacturers (provided they are running the subscriptions); stable revenue for government to replace petrol taxes.
With driverless cars people dont own them. They rent them. So there ends up being a lot less built. Like a third as much. No longer need garages to put cars in As the cars are constantly driving.The benefits are massively overstated. If everyone had a private autonomous vehicle, the roads would grind to a stand-still. (Think about the empty vehicles driving home or parking themselves near busy destinations.). Plus, it would give priority back to pedestrians who would be able to cross the road at any time and bring traffic to a halt (that feature would have to be foolproof for these cars to get approval).
The response to that would be road user charging, which would result in a massive impact on lower-socio economic areas, relative to those who live inner-city have much better PT access and could afford the additional charges.
I'd put my money on drone-flying private vehicles before on-road autonomous vehicles.
i thought fully automated trains were a thing, the easiest of options, travel x distance then stop etcI'm not sure that productivity gains would outway the cost yet. I believe there are some driverless iron ore trains. Not sure how that's worked out. But we don't even have driverless commuter trains yet, let alone trams, busses, trucks or cars.
I'm not sure that productivity gains would outway the cost yet. I believe there are some driverless iron ore trains. Not sure how that's worked out. But we don't even have driverless commuter trains yet, let alone trams, busses, trucks or cars.
If it's Telsa, Google etc., the price of those lawsuits (if unavoidable accidents), will end up being priced into new car costs. Which is a good thing. At present car manufacturers make cars safe to standards and what consumers want. If those accident costs flow to them, then to keep their prices down and sell more cars, it should result in cars (/other autonomous vehicles) going more the route of planes.Realistically, some kind of technology should be better at driving than people. Like auto-parking is way better at reverse parallel parking than most humans.
But the issue becomes one of accountability when things go wrong. You can be sure there will still be accidents, but now instead of being the individual driver's fault, it will be Mercedes, or Google, or Tesla, or whoever. I think that breaks the model from a legal/risk/insurance point of view, even IF the technology is good and overall better/less error-prone than people.
One of the biggest challenges driverless vehicles was always going to face is legal repercussions when fatalities and serious accidents occur.
They could reduce both of these by 50% (or even more) but are still going to face court action for just about every single one.
I see the biggest issue being humans ability to accept that accidents will occur, and possibly at no one's direct fault. You can't program for every single scenario.