The sooner we all get in them the sooner we’ll be better off. Think about it. Work while you’re riding and not driving-production goes up. No need for insurance or the highway patrol. No need for a garage as everything can be UBER. That means renting your garage out to uber to serve the neighborhood. No maintenance. It will all be done at one big center. Highway speeds at 80 mph bumper to bumper.
I could go on.
Rush hours-ride share would cut down on the traffic. There would be no need to own a car and worry about the catalityc converter being stolen.
No.
It's all fun and games until Bambi joins the dance.
I got my license at 16.
NOW 84.
HAVE DRIVEN OVER 1 MILLION MILES—NO ACCIDENTS—Last ticket in about 1997. NO SEAT BELT.
PUT OVER 444,000 miles on the ONLY new car I ever owned in 30+ years.
Have 1976 ton 4 speed 454 Chevy truck in driveway. It has over 348,000 on the chassis.
I have driven it over 250,000 miles towing horses since April 1986.
When towing a LIVE LOAD-—the defensive attitude of the driver is paramount. You CANNOT throw those animals around in the trailer or they will refuse to load up.
IMO-—THERE IS NOT a single ‘NON DRIVER” vehicle that can do that.
I’ve been in these companies, so I’m not ‘anti’ self-driving cars.
That said...I don’t want the goal to always be giving me more time to work. I also never want the ability to drive the car to be taken away, which is almost inevitable. I like driving. I don’t want to find myself in a vehicle that is yielding to a mob that is coming for me. I don’t want the government to have an ‘off switch’ to my ability to travel.
Etc...that said, when the tech is good enough, I’d LOVE to be able to know, when exhausted, that as soon as I get to my car I can sleep!