The downside of automotive technology

[onlinebiker]

And they think flour is mined like coal.

Pffttt

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And again --- overlook the point.


These systems work NOW

And they will ( like the drivers) age - then NOT . work. Then you will see the accident rate from things like rear end collisions spike - because users got used to having collision avoidence....

So it might work for 500 years before an emp blasts all selfdriving cars to smithereens. Killing a million people trapped in deathmobiles in an instant. If for each year in those 500 years 10.000 people die less because the computer does it better than THE human mind; isn't that worth THE one million toll?

Edit:
Misunderstood.
My bad, understand your point now.
But still; it's just a matter of checking up on THE systems and making those checkups required by law, isn't it?

Ever known someone to scam an emissions testing??

Those systems are laughably simplistic compared to the AI systems now being used - and you can expect future systems to be more complex, and more expensive. You can count on the costs of maintenance of such equipment being a major part of the expenditures for that vehicle.

Count on people thinking - "Can I get by without it"???