Yes, there will be growing pains, people will die, but in the long run, self-driving cars will essentially eliminate deaths due to driving under the influence, falling asleep, texting-while-driving, etc. People in “our generation” will find it difficult to adapt to this, and we probably will be the last holdouts, but this technology will definitely become widely used within 20 years.
Good post.
The goal at first is to reduce accident and fatality rates along with being more economical.
It’s good to see that not every FReeper is an extreme pessimist and complainer.
Farther out, 50 to 100 years, I wonder what transportation will be like. It isn’t hard to see a world where no vehicles have any human driving controls.