Self-Driving Cars

Fully automated cars will start as a luxury item and before you know it everyone will want one. In the mean time the bits of technology will continue to show up in our mundane human piloted vehicles. Already your Volkswagen will park itself. There are plenty of cars on the road today that have no mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the wheels. Once you make that leap you might as well turn it all over. I don't think that acceptance will be a problem at all. My first thought was the Audi from I Robot and who wouldn't want one of those?I love driving for it's own sake. I sometimes still go driving just because it snowed and I can slide around. As long as there is a manual override then I am all for it.edit; It will be the impact on the economy that will be a challenge to manage. I can see a lot of jobs disappearing.Edited by Dogmafood, : No reason given.

Trucking, couriers, taxis and public transportation I guess would be the big ones. As others point out I am sure that it will change at the speed that we can handle it.

I would equate it to airplanes and that technology is pretty robust. Everything will fail safe so even if it doesn't work it won't likely kill you.I think that it will start with collision avoidance tech backed by the insurance companies. After you can avoid accidents then it must be easy to just drive down the road.