Researchs Claim Self Driving Cars Willl Become Mobile Brothels And Havens For Drug Dealers

Just legalize brothels and tax the living hell out of them.

This self-driving car propaganda is careening toward the absurd! Let's have these discussions 20 years from now which is the earliest that self-driving cars are a reality.

By the way, if EV's don't increase in popularity/penetration, then self-driving cars will never happen in our lifetime.

Waymo is already doing self-driving with NO safety driver in Arizona (Silicon Valley trials start in a couple months) AND they are not using a pure EV. Self-driving cars will be a commercial reality within 2 years, not 20... but they will still be cars and not living rooms on wheels for a long time.

Self driving cars are a reality TODAY - however - in most states - you still MUST have the controls - and a drivers in position to take over in case of emergencies. WHether they are EVs or everything else better(Almost anything) - is not the issue - the issue is still who will be responsible for problems - and until the legal issues of liability can be solved - and they have yet to be - insurance is going to be a major problem.

Whether we like it or not, Waymo is already driving better than just about any human driver and is still getting better week by week. Insurance will be a fraction on self-driving cars as human drivers long-term.

I don't think liability will be that complex. Liability will be on the manufacturer for all Level 4 and Level 5 cars (Waymo and eventually Tesla, Ford, GM, and Uber when their solutions are ready). People will still be liable for Level 2 and probably 3.

It is hard to conceptualize where self-driving is at, since only the most recent builds and algorithms are relevant. Anything you read about 3 or 4 months ago is already outdated. Autopilot is significantly better today than it was even a month ago and Waymo is at least a year ahead of Tesla (and they have a million times more compute power for simulations). The latest is that Waymo is already launching a commercial server to take on Uber and Lyft next month, December 2019.

This is absurd, it will be a long time before self-driving cars offer the privacy needed for this to even be a possibility.

Unintended consequences perhaps, there are always a few from technological advancements. For example, so many people have died this year taking selfies on their iPhone that they now have a name for it...Selfaside.

"Oh people can come up with statistics to prove anything" said Homer Simpson
If posting comments was available years ago, I wonder if similar comments would've been made with the introduction of tinted windows.

I have a copy of the London Times with a cover Sunday article about a New Dance -that would spoil the morals of all dancers for ALL times -likely would cause many deaths and the spread of major disease - and might end the world as we know it.
The dance? .... The WALTZ.

Research also claimed that if Ireland allowed condoms to be sold without a doctor's prescription, people would be "fornicating in the streets." This stupid law was struck down, and my understanding is that the incidents of street fornication in Ireland did NOT increase.

Some research isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

Gotta admire capitalism in all its bizarre profit creating forms.

True self driving cars are still more than a decade away as are viable, non-subsidized EVs.

You're off by a factor of 10 more or less.

Waymo is launching a commercial service within two months. A base $35k Model 3 in 2019 is a viable EV, even with $0 in subsidies (faster and more feature rich than other cars in this price range).