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Well, that kind of stuff would still happen since in that case the driver was deliberately driving recklessly.

In fact, people could start accounting on other people's self driving cars being cautions and deliberately betting on their safety features. e.g If most people were driving a Tesla I could more safety run red lights since their other cars will stop for me automatically.

Unless we are going to make self-driving ONLY cars that is.




> Unless we are going to make self-driving ONLY cars that is.

This is the dream.

EDIT: More specifically, I envision a world where to manually drive your car you have to past a MUCH more rigorous test than the current licensing process. Including background checks for infractions such as DUI, would ban / block you from obtaining a manual driving license.

You would of course retain your freedom to have a car that can drive itself.




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