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I doubt a fully autonomous car will be mass produced anytime soon. Maybe in like 50years or so. Not saying the technology won't be there, it pretty much is already, but the work and cost to make it effective for the masses is too much for it to happen soon.
Just like I read an article about a few companies working on automated braking systems, when one car hits the brakes it sends a signal backwards so the cars behind it automatically apply the breaks, hence eliminating human reaction time. Sounds all fine and dandy, but for it to be effective every car would have to have the same exact system installed. Without everyone having the same system it's not really beneficial. Same with a fully autonomous car, it would only be effective at eliminating accidents and such if everybody had one, which won't happen unless every single car company starts producing only self-driving cars, and even then it would take years for the cars to trickle down and enough people be driving them. and then still, as mentioned, you'd always have environmental influences.
It'd just end up like electric vehicles are now, they've been making them for years and still I rarely see one on the road, even with all the benefits of them. Hybrids are slightly more common, but I don't know anybody that has one of those either. So even if they make it work just fine and start producing them, I wouldn't expect to see many of them on the road for years to come. By that time I'll hopefully be too old to drive myself anyways, because I would refuse to drive an autonomous car unless I was physically unable to drive myself.
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