I'd much prefer a system that stopped my vehicle as smoothly as possible to one that I would rely on to autonomously brake for me. I suspect that if all cars w

I'd much prefer a system that stopped my vehicle as smoothly as possible to one that I would rely on to autonomously brake for me. I suspect that if all cars were fully autonomous, that we would have fewer collisions and fewer high-speed collisions simply because we wouldn't need to use traffic signals to push traffic along (and we'd have fewer traffic-stopping accidents). A few months back, an older gentleman collided with my car on US 75 in Dallas while I was at a full stop. Would automatic braking have slowed him? Probably. Would he have collided with me at all if his car were driving autonomously? Probably not. He was distracted and took his eyes off the road, never seeing that the traffic ahead of him was at a complete stop. It took nearly 10 minutes for us to get off the road for a fender bender because nobody would allow us to get over. Traffic simply flowed around us despite the issue. I suspect that within the next 50 years, driving at all in most major cities will require a special license, and it will become a civil rights issue for both those who don't know how to behave like adults but want the freedom to move about anyway, and those who simply do not want to be tracked by any entity.