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Originally Posted by peter12

If you are talking about the Alaska Highway, then yes. If you are on that road at 4:00 pm in the middle of January, then you are seriously taking your own life in your hands. I had my mirror clipped by a semi-trailer two winters ago. I had to pull off to the side of the road and smoke about 39 cigarettes before I could start driving again.

This is human error, and is partially preventable through additional training, oversight (in the case of commercial vehicles), and stiff penalties. Autonomous cars are just a technologist pipe-dream at this point, and in reality will never be capable of driving in conditions outside of designated thoroughfares in big cities.

Not really.

The transition is already beginning to happen. Elon Musk, Tesla Motor’s CEO, says that their 2015 models will be able to self-drive 90 percent of the time.1 And the major automakers aren’t far behind – according to Bloomberg News, GM’s 2017 models will feature “technology that takes control of steering, acceleration and braking at highway speeds of 70 miles per hour or in stop-and-go congested traffic.”2 Both Google3 and Tesla4 predict that fully-autonomous cars – what Musk describes as “true autonomous driving where you could literally get in the car, go to sleep and wake up at your destination” – will be available to the public by 2020.

http://zackkanter.com/2015/01/23/how...-jobs-by-2025/