This is the world my children will grow up with....most of us will catch its growing pains.

Who's gonna drive you home....tonight?
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They will use sensors and the sensors react a lot faster than humans ever could which is why they will reduce accidents.

But they will still need to decelerate and there may not always be time.

It's enviable that at some point there will be an accident in which the circumstances requires picking the least bad of two options.

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Thanks for the comments so far some very good both for and against. To pick up on a couple of comments

I agree that 2021 may not be achievable but I think it will be sooner than many people think.

Is the technology dangerous? The manufacturers will have to prove it's safety. I saw the story of the Tesla driver killed. Very sad but Tesla will have to fix that problem. You cannot fix human error when it occurs.

I think the biggest obstacle is emotional. Drivers are very proud and connected to their driving ability and their beloved motors. It may take the next generation for that to change same way as the young embrace social media.

Anyway please keep posting I am learning a lot.

One more point

They will drive at pathetically slow speeds with absurd attention to h+s. But this being the real world will inevitably hit some drunk or other person lacking full cqpacity who randomly careers into the street. There will be calls for them to be banned or else taken off the road until the glitch (there isn't one) is fixed. Meanwhile, in the many months leading up to that death, thousands of people in driven cars will have died as a consequence of human error.

Clarksons not a fan , apparently nearly killed test driving one but won’t reveal who the manufacturer is

The difference between laboratory conditions and real conditions - I would hazard that driverless cars are far less likely to get into accidents with other driverless cars, that ones driven by meat sacks.

And here in lies the problem. No amount of programing of distances, and scenarios, can account human reactions. Will a human swerve left, right, slam on the breaks, freeze, accelerate to make the decreasing gap...

I think in most cases a driverless car is probably a lot safer than a emotional, unpredicatable meat sack (who's probably tired, caffeinated, thinking about that girl or what Sharon said, desperate for a p*ss or trying to change a CD).

All this talk of what would they do when they can't avoid an accident is bollocks. The entire point is you can program that - Certainly humans have no idea what they'd do in that scenario, and likely will react based entirely on adrenaline shock.

Machines are perfect for when you need to make instant decisions, based on calculated outcomes. Human's are great when it comes to thinking about how to calculated those outcomes, or you need someone to take risks based on poor decision making, that occasionally pay off.

Motor racing has human drivers, because otherwise it would be f**king dull, as there would be no risk or danger element.

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