Sure. But this isn’t a realistic future given present infrastructure. The actual choice is between manual and self-driving cars.
Locking this future in for good because of "present infrastructure" would be short-sighted.
Are there actually self-driving car services that aren't EV-based? Just that helps with several of those criteria, and they're substantially less dangerous than human-driven vehicles.
Neither is self driving.
We regularly fuck over this class of people. The backlash is broader, and my opinion, driven by a combination of taxi economic interests (see: New York, where Hochul and Mamdani have significant taxi-lobby money interests) and genuine but misplaced care for drivers.
lol perhaps you should do more research then mate. You clearly don't understand the nature of humans and interests.
Electric cars that are much less or at all maintainable by yourself or 3rd parties resulting in easy lock in and higher prices. Heated subscription seats will only be the beginning.
A lot of internet connected sensors, cameras and GPS resulting in complete surveillance of any public space since by design its a moving panopticon with AI. Flock is a joke compared to this.
Remote control from bad and "good" actors that could do _anything_ to _anyone_ at _anytime_. Since all of them are running proprietary software where plausible deniability is by design.
Loss of independent transportation. Once self driving hits critical mass it will become mandated, only for your safety of course. Meaning anybody or any group of people currently not in power could be refused service for any or no reason. Mandated breathalyzer will look like a toy in comparison. Please upload your ID and scan your face to drive. You want to drive to this protest? I don't think so Dave how about I reroute you to the next education facility locks doors. Have you ever seen people use vehicles in a natural disaster, war or other public unrest emergency situation to save lifes? Well in the future you won't since self driving cars are nothing more than a hunk of metal without connection or remote permission.
this is like discussing what will happen when we have UBI or teleporters or mars habitation. It's so far in the future it's funny.
As mentioned elsewhere, there is no such thing as a self-driving car. Waymo just removed the ability for their cars to go on freeways recently. There's no Teslas for rent within 50 miles of my house.
My friend just got a 2026 tesla and he has to take over to stop it from using the wrong lanes on freeways, or going straight in a turn lane.
My wife's driver assist in the subaru tries to kill me every time i use it, me and everyone in the car with me. so i shut it off. maybe there's been an OTA update that fixed it, who knows. All i know is there's a massive class action just waiting against subaru, once their eyesore system kills enough people.
There is no self-driving car, such that, right now, i could order one, and it would show up at my house.
we are 40 years from a fully autonomous, self-driving and self navigating car. and that's being conservative. We'll probably get some intermediate "partial self driving" like we have now with addons like "pre-planned routes" like I-10 or whatever.
My friend drives in Los Angeles with his tesla. I live in Louisiana.
There's no self driving.
my friend may just be hoping he gets to see it, 40 years is a long time for him. me too, but i might see it.
It is a Native Ad. i don't have the clip where the CEO of NPR discusses "underwriting" via ad inserts that "go with the flow."
What bothers me is someone who is correct getting downvoted, merely because it's sarcastic.
Same thing anyone should. Get help.
That said it's not guaranteed that the version we get will be without drawbacks, and imo we should be trying to shape a better version of the future by passing regulations now before unwanted behaviors calcify. Stuff like limiting how many empty miles cars are allowed to drive so that ppl don't just circle their cars around the block to avoid paying for parking, or regulating how long security updates need to be supported to keep insecure cars off the roads.