1, With what level of automation would you have total confidence?
2. Any prediction ( year) as to when an automobile manufacturer will reach Level 5?
3. What effect do you believe a fully automated automobile will have on:
a) traffic laws
b) liability issues
c) auto repairs
d) insurance
e) driver passenger/ occupants
f) designs of roads and inter-states
1) I can't get past level 0 won't even use my cruise control.
2) with the acknowledgment that I am technological disadvantaged and given the design flaws with technologies from radio to refrigerators I question whether we will ever see a fully automated vehicle free ranging
3 a) traffic laws will apply in the same manner slow in school zones, etc
b) liability issues I predict plaintiff attorneys are going to be having a field day with manufacturers and their suppliers, repair shops, and owners of these vehicles an other vehicles involved as well as government agencies maintain roads, traffic etc.
c) auto repair will become highly technical and is going to require people with advanced education. the day of the ubiquitous "grease monkey" will be at an end
d) insurance Insurers are going to have to learn to underwrite auto overages all over again. In fact any peripheral relationship to automated cars is gong to be subject to new underwriting criteria ( cities insured ,etc)
e) driver/occupants with the passage of time people will become more confident and more savvy with the new technologies and what we view with skepticism will be everyday norm to t future generation because human are very adaptable
f) designs of road and interstates this is gong to be a major undertaking. One wonders if in fact it will cause compaction and more people will e living a city/urban life .
Indeed I wish I were going to be around for the ride (pun intended
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