Re: Not in my lifetime... or yours, probably
Simon wrote: "Predicting how mischievous/evil/stupid people can be is harder."
True, and yet the human eye / brain combination is able to deal with quite a high level of any or all of them, subject to sufficient driving experience. This perhaps raises the further question "would the availability of autonomous cars render driving lessons and a test irrelevant?" And of course driving an autonomous vehicle would reduce the extent of experience in hazard recognition that anyone could hope to gain.
All this raises another point: by what percentage would the existing level of fatalities and serious injuries be reduced? Have those developing the technology made any predictions, or set any targets? Reduction to zero might be nice but at the moment it could only ever be an ambition for, er, marketing purposes. Oh dear...
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