Embrace the New Normal (of 2025): autonomous driving....one opinion

from **********.com (reprinted with permission)

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This takeover of the robots will move stealthily like a cat. The goodie-goodie legislators will set aside a lane for Level 5 (no driver, no brake pedal or steering wheel) cars, say one lane out of a four lanes-on-each-side freeway. The cars will run nose to tail one foot distance apart at speeds up to 90 mph (which will convert some people into boosters for them because then they get to work or get home faster). When they accrue mileage equal to human driven cars but prove to have a lesser accident rate, their lobbyists will demand more and more lanes be set aside for them , until human-piloted cars --those relics of the past--are relegated to regular surface roads. I say 2023 for the first set aside of lines purely for autonomous.

 

More public airing of the Battle of the Tech Bozos: Bezos vs. Musk
https://**********.com/2020/09/musk-vs-bezos-the-battle-of-the-titans-shapes-up-for-electric-vehicles.html