Timeline for Effect of Self-Driving Cars on American Teens?
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| Sep 8, 2015 at 18:40 | comment | added | Jay | nonafel and @thanby Sure, as of today nobody has that much confidence in self-driving cars. But it's plausible to suppose that someday they will be reliable enough. The question is "when we get there", not "today". I'd guess that's not going to come within the 2 or 3 years that you hear from the cheerleaders. It will be years before the technology is there, and years more before the law catches up to the technology. 20 years may be a plausible guess. | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 10:26 | comment | added | thanby | @SerbanTanasa Currently (and for the foreseeable future) all states that allow "self-driving" cars require a licensed driver be at the wheel and paying just as much attention as they would normally, because nobody really trusts them yet. I'd give it at least 20 years before any state government actually trusts fully-automated driver-less vehicles. Also note that currently the only place the self-driving cars are allowed to operate is on the highway, not around town. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 23:18 | comment | added | wedstrom | @Nonafel I would imagine that once a wide enough cases of safety are covered, the cases where human intelligence would be required (earthquake knocks out overpass, for instance) would be rare enough that the car would simply stop and call for help. Mandatory "road side assistance" may be a new clause in state minumim insurance, but I don't think it is reasonable to always require a licensed drive. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 21:23 | comment | added | Nonafel | For standard monotonous driving, a self driving car is ideal. However a program in the car that can handle every single situation before it get to the realm of artificial intelligence, which is something I don't think you'll see in a car. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 21:06 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Self driving cars that need a human operator "just in case" is an interim stage though, like having someone walk in front with a warning flag. After all, we don't require human-driven cars to have a better human driver present just in case. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 20:53 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @SerbanTanasa: Does NJ do that too? The only state I was aware of suffering from that particular mental disease is Oregon. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 20:30 | comment | added | user3652621 | @Frostfyre, sure, and NJ doesn't trust people to fuel their own cars. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | Frostfyre | @SerbanTanasa The car is self-driving, but state legislatures like Oregon require an autonomous vehicle to have a human operator. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | user3652621 | "self driving car still would require an actual licensed driver" That would not be much of a self-driving car now, would it. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 17:29 | history | answered | Nonafel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |