re: Ripple Effect of Driverless Cars

8) the reemergence of driver-powered cars and disappearance of driverless cars.

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7) Morris Bart goes bankrupt

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Morris Bart will do just fine. Poorly maintained 18 wheelers will still blow a tire and careen into hapless motorists.

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Driverless cars will be available, but people will still always want to drive. I personally enjoy driving. And it will be a LOOOONG time before poor people can afford driverless cars.

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I heard someone say that if almost all wrecks are caused by drivers the govt will make driving illegal for safety reasons. I could definitely see that happening.

Driving automation, 3D printimg, and nanotechnology in Healthcare will be the three biggest enhancements / changes to life moving forward.

Driving automation gives us hours of time to be productive while doing it with less risk (there is a huge ripple of who this impacts as mentioned in the OP)

3D printing will evolve retail and how we procure the goods we need and the time required to get them.

Nanotechnology could be the solve for the most complex diseases in existence.

These cause an inflection point in how we will our lives.

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it seems pretty inevitable that driverless cars will be the standard sooner rather than later.
There could be some remarkable changes that come from this:
1) car insurance no longer exists
2) no more driving tickets
3) cops no longer patrol streets for speeders etc.
4) towns no longer get $ from these tickets to pay for police
5) DUI's and texting while driving virtually go away
6) Driving deaths become as rare as plane crashes
7) Morris Bart goes bankrupt

Anything else you can foresee?

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Auto-body shops are gone which also means dealerships lose big money. Car manufacturers will see a loss of sales. Not only does plaintiffs firms go away, but so do defense firms and large portions of insurance companies. A bunch of ER's, surgeons, physical therapists, and chiropractors see a big reduction in business. Eventually parking garages disappear and in many cases individual car ownership. Taxis are gone. You will have autonomous cars roaming around to pick you up and take you whereever you need to go. Trucking companies consolidate or eliminated altogether. Gas consumption likely goes down decerasing demand for oil.

A complete transfer to autonomous cars will greatly change the economic landscape.

Line up for your HillaryCar.

Commuter flights under 4 hours will probably cease to exist given the time it takes to check in and such.

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Driving automation puts everything on a massive grid that is relational. Even in the case of a blowout, the system should be able to instantaneously react to the environment changing to provide the optimal outcome.

Theoretically, driverless cars results in no more road traffic and the ending of all stop lights as everything is relational to the environment surrounding it. Traffic no longer happens from people rubbernecking or delayed response time between start and stop. Ideally, everyone starts and stops at the same time with minimal distance between the vehicles.

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I will believe it when I see it.

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. Even a 6-10 hour drive would be nice to do at night if you could sleep.

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Get off work, set cruise and wake up next morning at destination. Will be great.

Yeah I'm not sure why people are acting like the ability to override the computer will not exist.

If you need to rush someone to the hospital, I doubt you'll sit back and let the car ferry you around at 35 mph.

On a more common note, what if you're late for work?