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Originally Posted by jayswin
I suspect in 100 years people will speak about how we used to manually drive cars and police would regularly close down roads for hours as they cleaned up bodies and investigated accidents and youth will cringe trying to understand how that was ever a thing as a line of automated vehicles drive along in perfect unison like an amusement park ride.
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Kind of like if you back to just before electricity was common and people used to use fire in their homes for lighting and heat. One of the leading causes of death was fire and fires that burned down good portions of towns were not uncommon. People lived in wood structures and would fall asleep with candles burning right next to them. The switch for many people was inconvenient at the time, but not too many people look back on that as being a bad thing in the long run.
Nowadays, many insurance companies won't touch old houses that have wood stoves or fireplaces. One day, it could be insurance companies that make driving manual vehicles too cost prohibitive. As some start moving over to automated cars and there are fewer people paying into the car insurance pool, the rates for those that hold out will probably go through the roof. I could see life and health insurance being affected as well by people who choose the more dangerous option.