What driverless cars would mean: - You can get there faster. People have slow reflexes, which forces them to drive more slowly and further behind other cars. The stop-and-go type of traffic would come to an end. All the cars would go at the same speed! - You can get there safer. Driverless cars have already driven 700,000 miles with no accidents. No human error. Some people estimate that traffic fatalities will go down 90%. And we’re talking about 30,000 people saved a year. - You won’t need to widen roads. You can fit more cars on them! - You won’t need auto insurance, or at least, the mandatory kind. - Law enforcement budgets are going to get destroyed. I saw a stat recently that the average police officer generates $300,000 in traffic ticket revenue annually. Seems high, but you get the point. - It will change health care. A lot of emergency room traffic is from auto accidents. - It will change the legal profession. Think of all the ambulance-chasing attorneys out there. Gone. - It goes without saying, but you can read or play games or goof off in your car. - It will save a lot of gas. Cars will be way more efficient. They can drive inches away from another car, drafting, like the NASCAR drivers do. - Cars that don’t wreck will last longer. from Jared Dillian (DailyDirtnap)
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:52:38 +0000
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