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I think you underestimate the extent to which people truly, honestly don't believe that it will happen to them, provided they are in control of the car. A self-
by to3m 14y ago
I think you underestimate the extent to which people truly, honestly don't believe that it will happen to them, provided they are in control of the car. A self-driving car just doesn't give you that assurance. Besides, who would trust their adorable children, the lights of their very life, to a robot? A mindless, unthinking automaton, a heartless killing machine with no soul?
- danielweber 14y agoI would mis-quote Linda Hamilton from Terminator 2: "The [car] would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die, to protect him."
- crusso 14y agoI think you underestimate how pervasive the demonstrated superiority of autonomous vehicles will be. Right now, we just have some videos showing fancy parallel parking: http://www.gizmag.com/just-how-good-will-autonomous-automobiles-get-watch-this/15096/ http://www.gizmag.com/just-how-good-will-autonomous-automobi... By the time legislation is being contemplated, everyone will have seen groups of autonomous vehicles moving in near perfect synchronization through lights, around obstacles, etc. The statistics will be overwhelming. The evidence will be all around us and only the last few hold-outs will need to be convinced with financial incentives (insurance rates) or legal ones.