Driverless vehicles will have the side effect of putting countless lawyers’s kids through college.
So people should be banned from driving too?
>>Driverless vehicles will have the side effect of putting countless lawyers’s kids through college.<<
Unlike driverful vehicles, which have a 100% safety record.
“Driverless vehicles will have the side effect of putting countless lawyers’s kids through college.”
indeed. personal injury lawyers are going to have a field day with self-driving cars, as well they should, given the extreme likelihood of continuous death and mayhem from this foolish, not-yet-ready-for-prime-time technology.
and the great thing about this from a liability lawyer’s standpoint is that almost all accidents nowadays are caused by the drivers and NOT by faulty or unsafe auto design or manufacturing. Thus, today’s main liability targets have been the bad drivers themselves and their insurance companies, IF THEY ARE INSURED.
With driverless cars, there’s no possibility that the drivers can be at fault since there aren’t any, and therefore there’s a 100% chance that the manufacturers are at fault, and the manufacturers have DEEP pockets, unlike individual drivers, even the ones WITH insurance.
Quite quickly, driverless car makers will be sued out of existence unless states absolve them of their liability, at which point it becomes open season on the innocents by driverless car manufactures. (In point of fact, the liability waiver would actually have to occur at the Federal level because of cars sold in a state that has liability waivers driving across the border to another state that has no liability waivers.)
Ubiquitous driverless cars are part of the same nonsensical utopia as ubiquitous flying cars, ubiquitous electric cars, ubiquitous wind power and ubiquitous solar power.
I remember a time when getting one’s driver’s license and driving one’s own car was practically the definition of freedom - a right of passage for young adults as one of their first experiences with personal freedom and personal responsibility. I have never forgotten that initial ‘rush’ of new-found independence, and I relish that freedom of movement to this day.
However, there seem to be an awful lot of people here who claim to love and support our “Free Republic”, but who simply cannot wait to relinquish control of all of our modes of transportation to government-controlled robotic machines.
I simply do not understand it.