Also some sort of regional traffic control. Then we move into flying cars that can navigate on land and in the air.
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.
Also some sort of regional traffic control. Then we move into flying cars that can navigate on land and in the air.