Driverless FJT's in the future?

[bob61]

20 years from now, only cars sold, will be driverless and computer driven. Are those digital cars, and/or, our new modern society, going to allow us old analog FJR's on the road?

 

[BakerBoy]

Allowed, me thinks. Just like today you can drive antique cars on the road that don't meet today's regs and standards, there will be too much pressure.

But I doubt your premise that in only 20 years only computer-driven cars will be sold--I don't think the technology will saturate all communities, all roads, all vehicle types that quickly. Nor do I think that technology will saturate all cars by then either, my belief. Farm vehicles, semis, buses, motorcycles etc won't have handled all the practical matters of autonomous driving and they have use of the same roads. I do expect that some metro areas will be so traffic burdened in the next few decades that they'll put significant tax (toll) on analog vehicles (such as semi trucks) at certain times to try to discourage their erratic human ways.

 

[Knifemaker]

In twenty years gasoline powered cars will still be on the road...much like they were 20 years ago. "Driverless" cars are not going to replace other cars, but there might be more of them out there....provided they work better than the ones we have now..

 

[BugR]

I would be quite happy if 80% of the cars on the road were driverless,

The current biological computers and sensors are quite inadequate.

Chris

 

[HelzBelz]

Ever listen to Red Barchetta by Rush? or read the short story it was based on?

https://www.2112.net/xanadu/articles/a_nice_morning_drive.htm

A Nice Morning Drive, by Richard Foster, published by Road and Track magazine in 1973....

I am only a bit of a Rush maniac. I can relate just about anything in life to either a Rush song, or my experience at one of 59 Rush concerts I've attended..

(edited to provide better link, with proper credit to author/publisher)

 

[MrZappo]

Sometimes driving around the chicagoland area, I already feel like half if the cars are unmanned with all of the people Facebooking or texting while they are driving.

And to helzbelz I will say "you know how that rabbit feels going under your spinning wheels"