Autonomous vehicles vs. 914, Your Driving In The Days Of The Wild Old West! Options

[Skydance]

Autonomous vehicles will render our old cars useless, and therefore worthless.

I don't think so.

Horse people talked about these same concerns ever since horses stopped being beasts of burden. Today, the recreational use of horses has increased the horse population to it's highest number in the past fifty years. Considering the cost of ownership, shrinking countryside, escalating environmental restriction, and many other issues we still have a high and healthy horse population.

Autonomous vehicles will hit us fast, an avalanche of them is on the way. Level four driverless cars will be taking the kids to school, circling back to take me to work, and then picking up the dog at the groomer. Driverless cars make good sense, and for many reasons. We all get the concept. After all the safe shuttling is done, I think a lot of properly wired guys and girls will feel like taking a good old car for a real drive. I don't think we'll see people lose desire for driving, in fact I think the opposite is likely.

Check the oil, enjoy your ride, your living in the days of the wild old west!

[damesandhotrods]

So what happens if the insurance companies decide that they don’t want to pay out for driver car accidents anymore and only insure driverless cars?

[somd914]

So what happens if the insurance companies decide that they don’t want to pay out for driver car accidents anymore and only insure driverless cars?

This begs an interesting question. The owner has no control (outside of maintenance issues) and should there be an accident between two autonomous cars the manufacturer would be at fault. No insurance issues for the owners. But I could foresee the manufacturers stone walling and settlements taking forever. In all reality I would think manufacturers are opening themselves up to an extrodianry amount of liability.