The liability issue will be the end of “auto-pilot” vehicles. Book it.
It is in their best interest(insurance companies) to state that their coverage is void if auto pilot is engaged.
“The liability issue will be the end of “auto-pilot” vehicles. Book it.”
totally ...
No, liability issues will only be a hurdle.
We will adopt autonomous vehicles far sooner than most expect. There are too many advantages to the technology; fewer accidents, the end of car ownership, convenience, lower transportation cost, fewer cars on the road, the end of parking problems, etc. What difference does it make if a car charges itself 20 miles from your house? It is inevitable. The insurance industry will adapt, if it survives.
Google has 8,000,000 safe miles of data collection to use in its machine learning. And now they have enough "grounded" road data to build simulators to train the AI. That's when things really speed up.
The technology has already surpassed these forecasts. The advances/cost of machine learning are on a logarithmic curve, like Moore's law.
We are in for some incredible times, coming soon. Change accelerates.
Telsa’s description of “Autopilot” is clear that it is not the same autonomous operation. “Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.”
In 20 years kids won't believe people were allowed to manually control 4000 pound machines manually zipping along within mere inches of each other. You are wrong. Book that.
I can’t wait until they field all the tractor trailers with self driving capability.