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This is 23 years into the future. If autonomous cars take off in that time, the future may be that you won't be able to drive a non-autonomous car on the roads.
by Jonnax 9y ago
This is 23 years into the future.
If autonomous cars take off in that time, the future may be that you won't be able to drive a non-autonomous car on the roads.
If that were to happen, it would be the motorways first. I would guess. But it would mean that deaths would be significantly reduced.
Found this info from 2015:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-in-great-britain-main-results-2015 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...
Road deaths:1,732
Seriously injured:22,137
Total: 186,209 casualties of all severities
I predict attitudes are going to change where people driving on the roads especially when talking high speed will be banned.
If people aren't using petrol cars anymore then you won't have petrol stations every few miles, a full tank will become quite expensive as well due to lack of demand.
But hey, it's still a ways away. In my town there's an old sign at the entrance to the square saying that traction engines are forbidden. Today, cars drive through it.
What's normal today will change. Who knows how exactly, so enjoy it whilst it lasts!
- guicho271828 9y agoI hope driving on the road will not be banned, but instead hope for the more strict law for a driver's license. Too many people pay not enough attention to driving, some may check emails, some may lack ethics, some may roadrage with ridiculous reasons, and so on. We are lucky that those people do not love driving and therefore are likely to welcome the introduction of autonomous cars. There would be an autonomous-only license in the future, bad drivers eliminated first (and shifted to autonomous cars). I also believe realistically an abrupt change as a total ban on driving would not happen, and instead there will be a more gradual shift to the driverless society, which would only materialize at the time I become too old to drive. I am completely fine with it, by that time I would have enjoyed plenty of driving.