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Originally Posted by STK
Further, the number of brands and variety will plummet. Who really cares about what car picks them up? There will be compact, mid-size, and luxury with the option to ride alone or pick someone up along the way. It will be like getting pick up at the airport in a Town Car or a Prius.
There will probably be an intermediate period were individuals will own a car with manual or autonomous option. But once autonomous cars reach a critical mass, manual mode driving will be against the law as too dangerous. About 30,000 people a year die in auto accidents now. That will end. The folks on this tread we'll take an autonomous car to the track where our manual cars will be in storage ready to go. And that's where it's the most fun to drive anyway. But i think it will take considerably longer than 5 years.
btw -the 3,000,000 people that drive for a living will lose their jobs.
Interesting times indeed.
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So what if those jobs are gone? New jobs will be created. Start learning programming, especially machine learning. Instead of people wasting time driving, they will be doing more productive things.