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To be clear: you want to bet that in 5 years human driving will be illegal on public roads in "the Bay"?
by kcarter80 11y ago
To be clear: you want to bet that in 5 years human driving will be illegal on public roads in "the Bay"?
- adamwong246 11y agono, I don't think we'll outlaw human driving for several decades. It will take a while for the old holdouts to die off- those individuals who'll stop driving when you pry the steering wheel from their "cold dead hands." But I do think that the legalization of auto-automobiles will start in San Fransisco and the surrounding area.
- ascorbic 11y agoProbably fewer and fewer people will go to the effort of learning to drive and passing the test, particularly in places where it's difficult and expensive.
- Eleopteryx 11y agoI don't think so. Rather, by 2050, driving will have been made illegal except on closed courses. Personally I don't think it will ever have to be illegal. It's more likely that people will stop driving of their own volition and the laws allowing driving will remain in place, just be unused. I'm actually in agreement that autonomous transportation will become "a thing" in roughly five years, somewhere in the world, in some capacity. This will prove the model and eliminate most of the rational arguments for its prohibition, which will lead to it becoming commonplace but probably over the course of several decades.