As millions will lose driving jobs, understandably the focus is often on the negative economic impacts of self-driving vehicles. But they come with huge plusses, too. This article by neurosurgeon Jonathan Slotkin details those.
The data is in. Today’s self-driving vehicles are dramatically safer and cause fewer accidents than human drivers. Furthermore, they’ll keep getting safer and better, too.
I suspect as this sinks in, the day where manual driving is banned, or severely restricted will arrive. The same pressures that criminalized drunk-driving & no seatbelts will see to it.
The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.
First we need consumer grade self-driving capable vehicles with full LIDAR. Tesla’s implementation of camera based self-driving is physically incapable of adequately fulfilling that promise. I have seen Waymo Jags navigate extremely well the clusterfuck that are Austin streets. We need that but at a price people can afford.