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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reports a 7 percent reduction in crashes among cars that have a basic forward-collision warning system. Include automatic braking features, and that number is 14 to 15 percent, according to Consumer Reports.
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Self-Driving Cars Will Make Us Want Fewer Cars | WIRED
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Originally Posted by P-hack
Do you think it would be a good thing, once we have privatized central vehicle control, if only the richest folks could go over 25mph? I mean once you eliminate all the real drivers that is, which is clearly what you want us to think the "market" wants.
So, you know, believe the marketing BS, even endorse it to the point of irrationality, put your sycophanty on permanent record.
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I don't see why only the rich could drive faster than 25 mph. Please explain.
As far as I know, there has been no marketing concerning self-driving cars. I've yet to see a single ad inviting customers to buy an autonomous vehicle.
I have no affiliation with Google and don't even own stock (though I wish I had invested at the IPO). It does concern me how much personal info they have on me, but have mostly accepted that convenience comes at the expense of privacy. To me, the benefits outweigh the risks. In the same way, I expect automated cars of the future will have benefits such as cost savings, safety, and convenience that will outweigh my strong desire to be in control.
As far as what the market wants; so far it mostly holds your opinion. Only 30% of people say they want autonomous vehicles.
[quote]average drivers are hesitant to trust their lives to a machine. Two-thirds of the survey respondents said they didn’t feel comfortable riding in a self-driving car, and only 22 percent would feel confident allowing their loved ones to ride in one...
Of those surveyed, 88 percent said they’d pay extra for a lane departure warning system, 77 percent would do the same for a forward collision warning system with automatic braking, 70 percent would go for adaptive cruise control, and 30 percent would pony up for self-parking.
Survey says: Drivers don't want autonomous cars | Digital Trends
I have no horse in this race, but merely am applying what I know is possible with technology to the developments we already have to make a prediction about the future. P-hack's ad hominems suggest that he is taking an emotional, rather than rational position.
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
I hope it doesn't lead to (enable) commutes even more ridiculously long than they are now. But it would. Like with traffic congestion, people have decided they will tolerate or even embrace a certain level of inconvenience and any action that relieves the inconvenience gets countered by adding more irritant.
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Very good point. I appreciate that you have exposed a problem with the technology and argued the point rather than attack people.