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Re:Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estim... by intrasight on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:48PM (#13717630)
I do believe that the future is mobility services. I don't think it's going to happen soon but I do believe it is going to happen. I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads.
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Re:Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estim... by Reason077 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:14PM (#13759659)
I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads.

I don't think that's going to happen. It might happen on some roads, in order to reduce congestion or whatever, but there's no reason to ban human drivers in general.

That's because "autopilots" can run in passive/safety mode, ready to take over and prevent you doing anything really stupid. This is already starting to happen, in fact, with AEB to be installed in all new cars by 2022.

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