Uber and taxis aside, I’m looking forward to autonomous cars, though there will be growing pains.
In this thread like all others it’s fun to read posts about how autonomous cars may not handle some uncommon hypothetical situations well - as if human drivers never make mistakes. Human drivers are far from perfect, autonomous cars don’t have to be perfect to be better or safer. Autonomous cars will learn and instantly share with other cars constantly, I’m not sure humans do. 90% of accidents are attributed to human error, that won’t be the case with autonomous cars once they’re fully developed. For every mistake an autonomous car makes, humans would have made far more other avoidable mistakes.
There were over 37,000 auto fatalities in the USA in 2016, and after years of decline, auto fatalities have been on the rise again since 2010. There are many, many more worldwide. Why defend that status quo?
I’d rather sit in traffic waiting once in awhile than having to wonder which human drivers around me are drunk, high, texting, reading, lost, sleepy, smoking, angry at their girlfriend, or otherwise distracted. There are unsafe human drivers around you every day you drive...