Presumably, driverless cars will be designed so they automatically stop for pedestrians in their path.
Most cities I’ve been, pedestrians already walk out in front of traffic. The only thing that stops them is the chance that a driver may not see them and plow into them.
My prediction - once driverless cars are ubiquitous, pedestrians won’t even bother looking at traffic. They’ll just walk out into traffic anywhere that’s convenient knowing that all the cars will stop.
Then all the police formerly used to control drivers can be reallocated as jaywalking stormtroopers...
My prediction - once driverless cars are ubiquitous, pedestrians won’t even bother looking at traffic. They’ll just walk out into traffic anywhere that’s convenient knowing that all the cars will stop.
Then all the police formerly used to control drivers can be reallocated as jaywalking stormtroopers...
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Good points. The car will snap a picture of the jackass, who will be identified by facial recognition and issued a citation.
If you imagine a situation where there has been a general loss of civility, you might want to consider there are times when having automatic braking could get you killed. Sometimes, and thankfully those times are rare, you might want to just keep going--your life could depend on it. Being corralled like a sheep by malicious pedestrians could be a real drawback.