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kleinbl00 · 2374 days ago · link · · parent · post: Driverless Cars Made Me Nervous. Then I Tried One.
I don't think they'll be able to "DEMAND" automated vehicles. I think they'll offer rebates for autonomous vehicles as soon as their calcs demonstrate that it saves them money. We're a ways off, methinks.
Six of one, half dozen of the other. The actual mechanism by which it happens isn't all that important to me. The pressure comes from the insurance companies and winds up at the manufacturers by roundabout path of consumer behavior. I'm thinking in the scale of centuries today anyway, 'A ways off' is basically tomorrow given how I'm currently relating to the clock.I think they'll offer rebates for autonomous vehicles as soon as their calcs demonstrate that it saves them money.