Like I said, we may still have signs as a courtesy to humans. Though many/most bikers, walkers, runners, skaters, and some scooters ignore or don't need road signs today. And they're already restricted from many roads, the restrictions might include more roadways.
Man, that's how Skynet starts!
As you undoubtedly know, cars 'talking to one another' is already in development, so you paint a likely picture.
On your island, everyone has their own car. On my island, nobody owns their own car and the car to person ratio is one in ten. They're all members of a transportation coop. Your cars are all maintained sporadically, or at least not as efficiently as a fleet, so will cost a bit more to keep running. Each car owner on your island has separate transactions with the maintenance company, tire company, fuel company, governing taxation authority, licensing authority, insurance company, etc, etc. My presumption here is that more and separate smaller transactions means higher overhead to handle all of that. On my island, that's all contracted or brought in-house by the fleet coop. On my island the coop takes the equivalent of the money that your island spend on 90% of it's cars and puts it into something that earns money (this is to make the two scenarios comparable). That income would go back to the fleet coop to reduce the rates that members pay.
In practice, there are hindrances, such as limitation of physics, and quite often costs.
Would this be before or after I have the first cup of coffee in the morning?
And now where would you store golf clubs?
Within 3 weeks last month, I blew out both front tires in freeway potholes while watching traffic vs. the road surface. At the closeness of cars & speed, I doubt I could have avoided them when I first saw them.
By then the police will have self driving cars too, so no problem.What would a bank robber do with a self driving getaway car?
Not entirely sure exactly what point(s) you're making?
Fair enough. As long as we keep in mind how many lives are lost, how many accidents there are, and how many close calls there are with the status quo. Automobile accidents are a significant cause of death in the US and worldwide. Some people are judging precursors to self driving cars, like Tesla, against an unattainable standard of perfect, instead of comparing to the status quo.
