Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
by ghaff on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:46PM
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The thing is that today the average age of cars on the road is something like ten years. Many people don't and many people can't afford to buy new vehicles. They may not have the money to deal with that fixit ticket which probably has to be handled by a licensed service station with a lot of fancy equipment.
So, if all this comes to pass, you'll end up with a system where the wealthy lease or ride-share their self-driving cars while the plebes are stuck with trying to keep their manually driven clunkers running.
Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
by maxerickson on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:51PM
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Sure, I was talking about addressing a particular safety issue with autonomous vehicles, not trying to solve economic inequality.
Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
by ghaff on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:08PM
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However, if autonomous vehicles are just for the wealthy end of society whether directly or by way of limo and taxi services, they're not going to be particularly welcomed by everyone else (aka the majority of voters).
I guess "DRM" for self driving cars is something people will complain about, but for vehicles that have controls it doesn't seem real horrible to have an autonomous system do a check to see if it is still licensed.
There could be an emergency override if the person that needed the vehicle didn't know how to drive, an override that automatically issued a fixit ticket.