You're talking about converting the entire US car fleet...
No one is talking about that. Poorly-driven vehicles will be with us for decades, because freedom. Everyone knows that.
No one is talking about that. Poorly-driven vehicles will be with us for decades, because freedom. Everyone knows that.
There is no right to drive like there is a right to own guns.
The authoritarians just hate that one! Some might say it doesn't apply, since the state owns the roads, so it can declare them off-limits to human drivers. That might have worked if we didn't already have billions of dollars worth of extant rolling stock in constant use. Suddenly taking all that would require the state to compensate vehicle owners, which will not happen. Thus, drivers have a right to drive, subject to reasonable regulation.
Humans are quite capable and will always be able to handle things that computers can't in situations they're not designed for. At least until an AI is invented that is indistinguishable from a human mind. There will be mistakes and bugs (just as there are now in software made for cars). But believing that humans who drive while tired, eating cheeseburgers, playing with their phone, texting, not accounting for blind spots and tailgating others are going to be safer in the long run is bordering on religious faith in some kind of fantasy that humans are more than they are.
No one is talking about replacing F1 drivers, we're talking about a sea of idiots that anyone who commutes every day with any awareness would recognize as being a major hazard. I'll take the patchable bugs over the psychos I see every day that put lives at risk with their self-centered hyper aggressive driving that relies on the attentiveness of everyone around them to prevent an accident. There is no software update for people like this–you either wait years for them to grow up or for them to kill someone.