re: Driverless cars on highway by end of year.

quote:

---

Driverless cars are coming but manually operated vehicles will always have a place at least in our lifetimes.

---

I think the change is going to be much more abrupt than everyone thinks because of what someone mentioned earlier: the insurance companies. Driverless cars are pretty quickly going to prove to be so much safer than human driven cars that getting insurance to drive yourself is going to start becoming prohibitively expensive for most people. Most people will quit buying manually driven cars and the car manufacturers will quit making them. They'll just go away or be relegated to a very small number of models geared toward rich gearheads that can afford to insure themselves.

Think of how rare it is already to find a manual transmission in a car these days. Now imagine the insurance company charged you five times as much to drive stick over automatic. You think you'd ever find one on a regular lot at that point?