re: #222 Targetpractice

When it comes to things like self-driving cars, I think Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” I think there’s a niche for self-driving vehicles, most likely in the transportation industry where insurance companies could argue that the safety of replacing drivers with computers outweigh any inherent dangers. But I doubt even major insurance companies are going to rush to mandate self-driving cars become standard anytime in the next 20-30 years. Seatbelts and airbags made sense because if they failed, the damage done was no worse than without them.

It won’t be too long until cars are required to have automatic braking and lane correction. Then, they’ll be required to have systems in place that allow them to communicate information to other cars, which will allow the user, and then the cars to detect traffic patterns ahead. Once the cars have those features on highways, then the car will be allowed to drive itself base on that input.