In a few years?
Most likely, within a few years your car will be equipped with a meter, and as you slip back and forth between autonomous and human driver modes, your insurance rates will fall and rise in perfect synchrony.
Most likely, it'll be far more than a few years before I have a car that's capable of autonomous operation. It'll be more than a few years before I have a new car, period, because I don't throw away a perfectly good tool.
And I'll let my insurance company meter my driving when I can't find an insurance company that doesn't.
In a generation, our kids will probably wonder why we ever did anything as dangerous and expensive as driving ourselves around.
Yes, because kids never do anything expensive and dangerous.
The article is not off to a good start. Probably not surprising that I don't find the remaining arguments very persuasive either.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
