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Perhaps, if you let your personal vehicle join the taxi fleet. But I suspect (dedicated) self-driving taxis will become the most intimately surveilled space on
by jacknews 9y ago
Perhaps, if you let your personal vehicle join the taxi fleet.
But I suspect (dedicated) self-driving taxis will become the most intimately surveilled space on earth, and anyone littering etc will be fined for it, certainly to the point of covering cleaning costs, and most likely as an additional revenue stream.
Additonally I suspect, far from ushering in an era of care-free, and almost cost-free travel, the self-driving fleet will be metered like cell-phones (ridiculously complex price plans), and part of the 'price' will be that your travel data is sold on.
True freedom will be a bicycle - assuming viable routes between "bicycle friendly areas" remain open - a danger is that inter-city/town/village roads become robot-only, and you can only actually travel 'manually' within bounded living areas, eg a city precinct, village, etc.
- konschubert 9y agoI expect cities full of robotic cars to be great bike cities. The reason why I don't bike every day is because with human drivers, I have to fear for my life. A robotic car, however, will not turn into me, will not speed, will not run the red light.
- jacknews 9y agoThat's the hope, yes. It depends if robot cars can deal well with cyclists or not. If not, the two may not be allowed to mix, and guess which will get priority.
- Ensorceled 9y agoI'm pretty sure robot cars won't randomly drive into bike lanes or park in them or make illegal turns or ...
- sitkack 9y agoLuxury robot cars will definitely have an, "asshole mode". So yes.
- BatFastard 9y agoI hope the roads full of autonomous cars will cause a resurgence of motorcycles. Since currently motorcycles and texting does not end well...
- hprotagonist 9y agothe alternative is that personal insurance for all non-autonomous vehicles goes through the roof and all motorcycles die. i have a bike. i love my bike. i don't know how long i'd be able to ride it if autonomous cars take over.
- qb45 9y agoAs if computers haven't killed enough people already. Somebody posted this here a few days ago joking about self-crashing cars: http://autoweek.com/article/autonomous-cars/tesla-model-s-autopilot-strikes-again-dallas-crash http://autoweek.com/article/autonomous-cars/tesla-model-s-au...