Self driving is just like every safety feature, at first it’s a luxury and eventually it’s either mandatory or insurance rates drive behavior to adopt it. Look at the number of cars with adaptive cruise control, lane centering, etc. That’s partial self driving. The next 10 years is going to be eye opening for consumers, insurers, and regulators as Level 3 autonomy rolls out to mid to high end vehicles where the car drives for you 80-90% of the time.
It’s inevitable that generative AI’s “reasoning” and its ability to have literal eyes in the back of its head, never get tired, never text, never drive under the influence, never get old and slow, etc, will surpass 99% of human drivers in our lifetime. It’s just a matter of having enough data to train a big enough trained model and enough processing power, cameras, and sensors on the car.
I think the capabilities have already surpassed many drivers on the road! But I do think there will be a fight over full takeover in the future. People cling very hard to the idea that cars mean freedom, meaning driving yourself. But the paint is closing in with each added feature in upgraded models.
Agreed, I expect Gen X and probably us Millennials (sadly) to get old and fight younger generations to be active drivers well past our primes, despite technology that fixes the driving while older problem.
Self driving is just like every safety feature, at first it’s a luxury and eventually it’s either mandatory or insurance rates drive behavior to adopt it. Look at the number of cars with adaptive cruise control, lane centering, etc. That’s partial self driving. The next 10 years is going to be eye opening for consumers, insurers, and regulators as Level 3 autonomy rolls out to mid to high end vehicles where the car drives for you 80-90% of the time.
It’s inevitable that generative AI’s “reasoning” and its ability to have literal eyes in the back of its head, never get tired, never text, never drive under the influence, never get old and slow, etc, will surpass 99% of human drivers in our lifetime. It’s just a matter of having enough data to train a big enough trained model and enough processing power, cameras, and sensors on the car.
I think the capabilities have already surpassed many drivers on the road! But I do think there will be a fight over full takeover in the future. People cling very hard to the idea that cars mean freedom, meaning driving yourself. But the paint is closing in with each added feature in upgraded models.
Agreed, I expect Gen X and probably us Millennials (sadly) to get old and fight younger generations to be active drivers well past our primes, despite technology that fixes the driving while older problem.