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Old 05-08-2012, 12:42 PM   #9
comrade
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Originally Posted by Sliver View Post
Doubt their target market for this is 30-something able-bodied dudes.
Eventually it won't matter what people want. Once self-driving cars are shown to be significantly safer than human drivers, the only sensible thing to be done is to outlaw human drivers (except in very narrow circumstances).

The only question is how to deal with liability at that point. Certainly Google engineers or car companies won't want to shoulder the liability for tens of millions of cars. I wonder if the sensible thing to do would be for the government to essentially declare accidents "no fault" and administer some sort of insurance that all drivers pay into.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Obviously there are a lot of steps between here and there.

On a side note, I've always wondered how the driving records of people who say they "love driving" compare with other groups of drivers.
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