I know it is coming, insurance co does not want to deal with trying to take cell phones away from people, they are just passing on the costs of more accidents and waiting for the driverless technology to get here. Will be interesting how they sort out responsibility them, manufacturers and repair folk will be on the hook. Accidents will be less, but when they happen it will be entire groups of vehicles, feast and famine on those deals.
Cabs and trucking firms can't find drivers, they will go for it in a heartbeat. All your competition has the same technology, don't have to deal with people, benifits, sick time, Human Resources dept, govt rules on all such. They will be doing little dances when this comes to be. Software can route the trucks on more efficient, 24 hour a day schedules, trucking firms can merge and get bigger, bigger piece of the pie. They will be all over this!
The tough part will be the transition. When automated cars will be sharing the road with human driven cars - neither side will expect what the other side does, and then who gets the insurance check from the other? As with airplane crashes, everyone points fingers at everyone else until everyone ends up pointing at the dead pilot - could not have been any other fault right? And so insurance on human controlled cars will skyrocket, to the point you can't afford to be driving on the road.
Railroads could already be using this technology, but there is such a strong rr union that it is slow going there. But rr was just designed for this, they aready are stuck to the well metered and controlled tracks, and in general have the right of way to not stop for anything.
In the end, it will change fast, and will come to all, sort of like cd came to vinyl records.....
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