Quote Originally Posted by FighttheGoodFight View Post
I think we also have to look at the reality that moving to driver less cars will take quite a long transition. Unless the cars are extremely cheap people are going to continue to buy cheaper cars. In places like Oklahoma with low usage/amount of public transit, a car is a necessity for work.
there also is the legal arguments that will need to be litigated that could take years regarding driver less cars... remember that AI still only does what it is inherently programmed to do, and those programming decisions will result in people wanting to blame the companies for those decisions. the example that i have heard several experts in the AI field and driverless car fields have used is the following

if a driver less car is presented with an immediate decision to either hit a baby in a stroller, or drive the car into a wall, which will it do? if the AI determines to hit the baby in the stroller to save the driver, the family of the baby will bring a suit, and is the company liable... if the AI determines to save the baby in the stroller and hits the wall and it kills the driver, the family of the driver will bring a suit, and is the company liable?

that is the piece with all of this AI tech that hasn't been properly discussed and legislated or litigated... and that will have to happen before driver less cars become mainstream... and since we are now involving city councils, state legislatures, us congress, and courts.... the process will take years, and probably many years...

the liability of these devices might even end up preventing them from becoming mainstream in my lifetime. we just don't know yet