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What will it take?
We expect the advent of autonomous vehicles to make us feel like we are living in nirvana. Ok. Maybe not nirvana, but it should lead to the elimination of car crashes. After all 94% of all car crashes are the result of driver error.
Self-Drive Act
I’ve written about self-driving trucks. (Here’s the first of three articles in a recent series.) And, these are most likely to be the first adopted use of autonomous vehicles. It’s not clear if the tractor (what one calls the “truck” that hauls the trailer) will be autonomous on the highways, only to revert to driver control on the side-streets and within cities- or there will be a leader vehicle (driven by a human), with a series of autonomous vehicles following the instructions of the lead driver.
Brave New World? Or just a chimera?
What we wish for…
So, yesterday, we spoke about the one (of the two) place driverless vehicles make a great deal of sense (and the only place where the practice prevails today). Today, instead of talking about agriculture (where these autonomous vehicles are widespread) or trucking (where they are making inroads), we are going to center our discussions about self-driving cars.