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Anxious to hear more about how this will work. Lots of questions
I wonder too. What if the vehicle is in an accident and the occupant is DUI? They where not technically driving, the vehicle was. Do they still risk losing their license? or do they have to go back to a manual vehicle?
It would be pretty silly to require them to go back to a manual vehicle. More likely , we should require them to use only autonomous vehicles!!!!
I read in Popular Mechanics that Google’s driverless cars have already been test driven over 160,000 miles without causing any accidents! One driverless car was involved in a fender bender, but it was the Google car that got rear-ended by a regular car at a stoplight (and it occurred when the Google car was under human control).
Liability is definitely an tricky issue that will need to be worked out; however, if these robo cars work like they’re supposed to, perhaps the bigger issue is if driving will become so safe that we’ll no longer need auto insurance…
Who would the police issue a citation to if Google’s car texts while driving? Would it be an electronic ticket? Could text it to them, I suppose.
so, if the car recieves a text msg and the human in the back seat is reading it… um… ticket? um… afterall, it’s a driverless car?! or is it? um…
I think there will always be a need for auto insurance coverage but the premiums should decrease markedly as frequency and severity of losses goes down. We are definitely living in some interesting times.