Soon we will have no one who can drive on their own.
Do they still have Driver’s Ed in high school?
I took it to get the insurance discount.
Already had my DL.
Having peons know how to drive is dangerous. Next they might start thinking for themselves.
Being able to drive a manual transmission is now a lost art. Almost all my cars were stick shift not to mention my motorcycles.
“ Soon we will have no one who can drive on their own.”
From antics observed on my most recent excursion, I’d say we are well along that path.
This reminds me of a great self-deprecating humorous rant I read decades ago in the Village Voice.
The writer, a denizen of Manhattan, was trying to get people to subscribe to the Voice by appealing to their sense of elitism and snobbery, saying that only THEY knew what “good” was.
This innate sense of Truth, only possessed by Gotham residents, was furthered by their living on “a tropical island off the coast of America.”
I am sure Mr. Mention means well, but he needs to get off that island more often.
I envision a future where there will be self-driving cars, all cars will be networked to hundreds, if not thousands of cars in the immediate vicinity, and they will all be talking to each other.
No stoplights or stop signs would be needed...cars will speed up imperceptibly or slow down imperceptibly so that your car would go right through a busy intersection without stopping, while a car zooms through right ahead of you and right behind you without stopping.
The price to pay for this would have to be the abolishment of humans driving their own cars, and as much as I would love to have the option of having my car drive me to work or to drive me through a beautiful countryside that I could enjoy with my eyes, I won’t surrender that.
Self-driving cars and human-driven cars cannot coexist in the same driving space. One can imagine the Yutes of today taking great glee in creating chaos with self-driving cars.
The proponents of self-driving cars could also try to quarantine human driven cars to certain roads, but one can imagine the difficulties there. Right off the bat, if your insurance company knows you are driving a car yourself, you are going to pay much higher insurance rates. That isn’t even in question. They will do everything they can to make driving your own car so costly you will “choose” not to do it.
I have aways thought it would be awesome to get some extra sleep while commuting into work. Or better yet, get those extra winks while my flying car flies me into work, but...I won’t see that before I die.
And I have concluded I am okay with that.
If gas prices go up, many of us STIL wont be able to afford an EV, or maybe even a car of any kind. To me that means that not many of us will be buying an EV because of the price of gas. Adding to that & assuming there might be many older used EVs on the market in the future, you would just about have to be out of your mind to want one of THOSE.