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it's a nightmare for people who are good at driving and enjoy it. Unfortunately, that's a minority of the population by far. Most suck at driving and would rather not drive at all.
I just dont see any way it wont happen. Wages haven't increased in step with cost of living. This drives pressure to reduce expenditures. Cars are crazy stupid things to purchase because they lose value, spend most of the time you own them sitting still and doing nothing, and they're big so they need their own land to do that sitting around on that you also have to pay for. There is tremendous pressure to eliminate this cost from your life, especially everyone under the age of 35, who tend to make crap money for their age compared to previous generations. As soon as an option presents itself, it's going to be adopted like wildfire because it centers around money. It will be a brain-dead easy financial choice
1. Save a ton of money and use car services driven by robots to transport you around
2. Spend a ton of money on a car so you can enjoy the privilege of driving yourself.
Add laws that will undoubtedly follow surrounding insurance and safety and i really dont see a way that this future doesn't come to pass...and doesn't come to pass within my lifetime (within the next couple decades). We're not going to force humans to be better drivers (we haven't in the the preceding decades) so you'll not only have the financial pressure but the public safety pressure as well. Nothing i can think of can prevent anything above. It'll be a moral imperative to make human driving illegal or as close to illegal thru high costs as possible.
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