Originally Posted by
Mormolyce
Can't wait for this to become a partisan issue. We'll have a new pointless online pissing match to pour thousands of hours into. I'm guessing one side will be "rights! tyranny!" and the other will be "but the death toll/why can't you just use an autocar?".
But yes, it's probably inevitable. Likely it'll proceed in stages - eg, you can't drive in major cities but you can in the suburbs. Then it'll be no cars in the suburbs but the country gets to keep theirs. I'm already guessing which side of politics each argument will end up on.
In addition to the general road toll, car attacks will likely be one of the catalysts. Big car attacks will create waves of bans in certain areas.
- - - Updated - - -
How many "sensor malfunctions" do humans have? Not to mention brain malfunctions. We're currently struggling to convince people not to text while driving.
In the US, humans kill something like 40,000 people a year in car accidents. And about 5 million are injured. The automated system doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to beat humans... and that's not really a high bar.
I don't know how you trust your kids in a car driven by a human, personally.