It is Saturday morning and as I was indulging in a cup of fake coffee (instant) the so called news was reporting on self-driving vehicles. They had a fellow there who had written a book, and he is employed by one of the companies who are creating these vehicles. It was easy to see his prejudice in promoting the self-driven vehicles.
This salesman stated that in the future these self-driving vehicles will save you and me a lot of money and worry. He said they will reduce death from auto accidents by 90 %. How that will occur, you might ask. People will no longer purchase vehicles. Yep, he said, you and I will not own a vehicle! If you need to go to work you will call one of the companies that will own vehicles and a self-driving car will come to your home. You will be able to schedule the same vehicle each morning at the same time. After work you can call for a car to pick you up and take you to the market or to the gym.
This salesman stated, “You will no longer have the problem of buying a car, buy gas, purchase insurance, cleaning the vehicle and so on”. You will not need to take your kid to school there will be self-driving buses, or if you don’t live in an area served by a school bus, you can call the self-driving car to take your kid to school, and you don’t need to go along.
I just thought of something else, you will not need a garage or a drive way. When you build a house the area that was for a garage can be used as your man cave. With no drive way, you will have more area to mow.
If you go out to a party and have one to many to drink, you will not need to drive home, call and the car will come for you. That could be a good part of these vehicles.
A 16 year old will no longer get a driver’s license. When your son or daughter goes on a date, they will be in the back seat the entire time! Is that good or bad? Depends on whether you have a son or daughter!
Do you think they will have self-driving motorcycles?
Lots to think about!
Non advocate of driverless; Don Ford
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