Self-driving cars...

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by DanEC

You have more faith in technology than I do.

Don't mistake my prediction of the future with a desire to see it done, nor a prediction that it will come about without serious growing pains. My point was that none of the problems you mentioned in jest were beyond solving with today's technology plus a lot of money and political will. ... In my experience, people want better transportation and lower taxes. One way for politicians to have both (and keep their jobs) is to require car makers to find ways to stuff more and more cars on existing roadways. Networked self driving cars seem the obvious solution.

P.S.
Somewhere around 1954, the Weekly Reader for my elementary school class included an article about self driving cars. It anticipated that the government would bury electrical cable in center of each lane of the Interstate system that would send a signal to a system on the car to keep it in its lane. That plus an early cruise control would allow the driver to relax more and be responsible only for braking and occasional passing. Of course the Interstate highways were not nearly as crowded back then.