Of course many of us hot rodders have a viscerally negative reaction to these things along with a healthy dose of skepticism. I may be biased living in Seattle where everyone is a gadget freak but I suspect the population at large will fall in love with self driving cars. They are no talking about selling fully (level 3? ) autonomous cars to the public as early as 2020. There is a lot of optimism around these things right now but I think the timeline is greatly exaggerated. We've had viable hybrid and electric cars now for several years and what are they 1% of the fleet ? And those are fairly affordable as well.
What blows me away and is not mentioned much is the interaction of human drivers and auto cars. Auto cars work great together or as a single unit in , but how will they react to me driving very aggressively around them ? I should be able to easily shove inside of them in packed up traffic lanes, intimidate them while making left turns or whatever other scenario you can imagine. I can't wait to see the frown on the rich, smugly self satsfied google employee pantywaist riding around in his auto tesla when my hoopty '92 Cadillac cuts him off.
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